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:

• 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)

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!)

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