Robot CA at toehold.com

[Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder]

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On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:33, greg@turnstep.com wrote:

> You miss the point - you may trust your system again, but the public's=20
> perception of the system may suffer an unrecoverable blow. If a major CA=20
> was broken into and compromised, but the company eventually regained=20
> control, all the reassurances in the world would not stop people from=20
> considering using an alternate CA that has not been compromised.

Hmmm. I think people are usually far too optimistic - not many people
changed their attitude towards Verisign as some random hacker gained a
certificate for microsoft.com (or something like that, I don't remember
exactly).

cheers
-- vbi

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