[Psi-devel] OT: CACert included in Kubuntu?

Trejkaz trejkaz at trypticon.org
Thu Nov 30 04:12:14 PST 2006


On Wednesday 29 November 2006 10:15, Maciek Niedzielski wrote:
> Justin Karneges wrote:
> >> Best security practice is removing all certificates and use only some of
> >> them.
> >
> > And unfortunately a usability nightmare. :(
>
> I'd like to see VeriSign helpdesk's face when someone (normal user!)
> called them to ask for the fingerprint ;)

But there is a damn good point here.  How do we know if the key for "Verisign" 
on my machine right now was actually made by them?  And do I even trust a 
corporation in the first place?  (Didn't they make an enormous screw-up a 
while back?)

TX

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