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A comment on Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web. Parent comment

Re:Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the... by jessaustin on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @09:09PM (#8627813)
The authentication provided by the extant PKI system is much weaker than the encryption provided. Any CA can do anything it wants, and browsers trust lots of them.
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