Re:CA Comodo used broken OCR and issued certificates to the ...
by icebraining on Friday October 21, 2016 @07:16PM
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Where would you go to check for Amazon's fingerprint?
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Re:CA Comodo used broken OCR and issued certificates to the ...
by jasonjayr on Friday October 21, 2016 @07:58PM
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A standard for face-to-face TOFU checking would be in addition to the PKI infrastructure, and to facilitate a secure way to use self-signed certs.
Obviously we've never had face-to-face relationships with the likes of Paypal, Stripe, etc, and would still rely on our browser and operating system vendors to validate the chain of authority.