24 Mar
2011
24 Mar
'11
10:34 a.m.
On Mar 24, 2011, at 7:09 AM, Harald Koch wrote:
On 3/23/2011 11:05 PM, Martin Millnert wrote:
To my surprise, I did not see a mention in this community of the latest proof of the complete failure of the SSL CA model to actually do what it is supposed to: provide security, rather than a false sense of security.
This story strikes me as a success - the certs were revoked immediately, and it took a surprisingly short amount of time for security fixes to appear all over the place.
<snip> -- Harald
I'd hardly call the fact that it required manual blacklist patches to every browser a "success". SSL is a failure if real revocation requires creating a patch for browsers and relying on users to install it. -- bk