Anti-(certificate)-authority day
Theoretical discussion and practical testing and deploying of alternatives to the much hates Certificate Authority system that is the most popular at the moment to make SSL work for "secure" websites.
why is ssl/https broken: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/state_of_ssl_analysis/print.html
Alternatives on the table:
Background infos:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/state_of_ssl_analysis/print.html
Convergence: a related presentation: https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=df9sn445_206ff3kn9gs&pli=1https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=df9sn445_206ff3kn9gs&pli=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA
Definition of notary:
(Please write one here!)
Theoretical discussion and practical testing and deploying of alternatives to the much hates Certificate Authority system that is the most popular at the moment to make SSL work for "secure" websites.
why is ssl/https broken: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/state_of_ssl_analysis/print.html
Alternatives on the table:
- Monkeysphere: http://web.monkeysphere.info/ (PGP web of trust based authentication)
- Perspectives: http://perspectives-project.org/ (comparing a lot of independent views of certificates)
- Convergence: http://convergence.io/ (an improvement of Perspectives)
- TACK http://tack.io/ http://tack.io/draft.html
- Sovereign Keys https://www.eff.org/sovereign-keys
Background infos:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/11/state_of_ssl_analysis/print.html
Convergence: a related presentation: https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=df9sn445_206ff3kn9gs&pli=1https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=df9sn445_206ff3kn9gs&pli=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA
Definition of notary:
(Please write one here!)
