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Re:Introducing A16Z Crypto by speedplane on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @02:36AM (#17398371)
You have to trust someone, at some point. HTTPS/SSL relies on a distributed trust system. Even with crypto, you have to trust the developers that created the protocol and the consortium of groups that operate it.
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Re:Introducing A16Z Crypto by clu3 on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @06:39PM (#17404527)
At least these things are opensourced
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Re:Introducing A16Z Crypto by speedplane on Thursday June 28, 2018 @01:52AM (#17414407)
Actually, no. Plenty of SSL/HTTPS servers run non-open sourced software. Plenty of open source foundations have closed decision making processes. Being open source is neither necessary nor sufficient to being trustworthy.
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