[HacktionLab] FYI: Free certificate authority

[Alan Dawson]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:10:26AM +0000, Charlie Harvey wrote:
> 
> Moxie's convergence which uses a distributed trust model:
> http://www.networkcomputing.com/networking/new-ssl-alternative-support-grows-for-convergence/d/d-id/1100471
> (talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA )
> 
> Monkeysphere uses the pgp web of trust: http://web.monkeysphere.info/why/
> 
> There was also an effort to extend DNSSEC to validate certificates,
> though I think that probably just moves the problem to DNS...

also certificate transparency is coming now.  And getting enforced in
Chrome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_transparency
http://www.certificate-transparency.org/

Alan Dawson
-- 
"The introduction of a coordinate system to geometry is an act of violence"
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