Gregory, On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Gregory Edigarov <greg@bestnet.kharkov.ua> wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:12:08 +0200 Martin Millnert <millnert@gmail.com> wrote:
Mike,
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Mike Jones <mike@mikejones.in> wrote:
It will take a while to get updated browsers rolled out to enough users for it do be practical to start using DNS based self-signed certificated instead of CA-Signed certificates, so why don't any browsers have support yet? are any of them working on it?
Chrome v 14 works with DNS stapled certificates, sort of a hack. ( http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/06/16/dnssecchrome.html )
There are other proposals/ideas out there, completely different to DANE / DNSSEC, like http://perspectives-project.org/ / http://convergence.io/ .
I.e. instead of a set of trusted CAs there will be one distributed net of servers, that act as a cert storage? I do not see how that could help... Well, I do not even see how can one trust any certificate that is issued by commercial organization.
As I understand it the idea is that you would have the power/capability to assign trust yourself to friends, CAs and your cat. This then forms some form of (washed out word-warning) web of trust, when you connect up with others and get their one-step-away-trust imported. Outsourcing trust is a pretty hard problem... there's no way to get around it, really, so this approach (as per my limited research) at least gives you some power to control it. Regards, Martin