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Re:Distrusting New WoSign and StartCom Certificates by pfg on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @11:18AM (#12788665)
Haven't you heard, you can solve any problem by throwing a blockchain at it! ;-)

On a more serious note, Certificate Transparency, which will become mandatory in Chrome in about a year, uses technology that is strongly related to blockchains, so we're really not too far from a blockchain-like solution for the Web PKI.

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Re:Distrusting New WoSign and StartCom Certificates by schoen on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:26PM (#12789803)
I agree that CT uses a technology related to blockchains, but as I noted above, Ben Laurie has been pretty vocal in saying that the Bitcoin-style PoW blockchain isn't a technology that he favors, and I think he thinks CT is importantly different in some respects (for example in accepting more centralization in the operation of logs: an uninvolved anonymous party can't show up and "mine" a CT log event).

http://www.links.org/files/decentralised-currencies.pdf

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Re:Distrusting New WoSign and StartCom Certificates by Torgo on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @01:20PM (#12789748)
A global, permanent, public, append-only log for 11 cents a record is pretty useful.
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