On 26/07/2017 6:20 AM, Adam Borowski wrote:
> https provides no protection against targetted attacks by government agents. 
> The CA cartel model consists of 400+ CAs, many of them outright controlled
> by governments, most of the rest doing what they're told (no, warrants are
> are a story for nice kids).  Clients in general trust _any_ CA, which means
> you're only as secure as the worst CA.  Ie, https protects you against Joe
> Script Kiddie but not against a capable opponent.
>

Except there are new-ish ways to limit the scope from 400+ CAs to just
the one you use.
c.f.
/Certification Authority Authorization/ (/CAA/) /DNS/ Resource
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6844

... if APT wishes to support this.

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