On 22-Oct-2013 16:14:00 -0400, David Miller wrote: > After the PRISM and other Snowden leaks, inquiring minds want to > know: whose SSL certs are to be trusted? > Is a self-signed cert likely to be stronger?
Obviously, yes: any issuer in any country may be forced (by local authorities) to issue a valid certificate for any host or domain, so no one will be able to distinguish between original host with updated certificate and MitM proxy operated by feds. -- Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin <gremlin ПРИ gremlin ТЧК ru> GPG: 8832FE9FA791F7968AC96E4E909DAC45EF3B1FA8 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
