Re:Google Will Soon Shame All Websites That Are Unencrypted
by snowwrestler on Thursday January 28, 2016 @12:40PM
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There are already points of centralization at the domain registrar and DNS layers.
That was a major (really the major) basis of the fight against SOPA--it would have required ISPs to interfere with DNS resolution as a way of shutting down serial copyright infringers.
And the U.S. federal government can already seize domain names for some reasons.
So, the question is: does the value of pervasive over-the-wire encryption outweigh the risk additional centralization via CAs? Right now I think it does, but that is in part because I believe that the CA infrastructure itself will improve over time.
That was a major (really the major) basis of the fight against SOPA--it would have required ISPs to interfere with DNS resolution as a way of shutting down serial copyright infringers.
And the U.S. federal government can already seize domain names for some reasons.
So, the question is: does the value of pervasive over-the-wire encryption outweigh the risk additional centralization via CAs? Right now I think it does, but that is in part because I believe that the CA infrastructure itself will improve over time.