Re:Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the...
by itistoday2 on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @01:10PM
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> The solution is absolutely not to have browsers accept self-signed certificates though. The solution is something nobody hasn't quite come up with.
We do have a solution that does accept self-signed certificates. The remaining pieces need to be finished and the players need to come together though:
Let's Encrypt seems like the right "next step", but we still need to address the man-in-the-middle problem with HTTPS, and that is something the blockchain will solve.
We do have a solution that does accept self-signed certificates. The remaining pieces need to be finished and the players need to come together though:
https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain
If you're in San Francisco, come to the SF Bitcoin Meetup, I'll be speaking on this topic tonight:
http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Bitcoin-Social/events/18...
Let's Encrypt seems like the right "next step", but we still need to address the man-in-the-middle problem with HTTPS, and that is something the blockchain will solve.