[SSL Observatory] Number of CAs

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Thu Dec 8 10:08:04 PST 2011


[reorganizing and trimming to highlight the salient point]

On 12/07/2011 09:27 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor<dkg at fifthhorseman.net>wrote:
>> Do you think the incentives underlying the current CA model are broken?
>
> If you think 50 CAs is too many then make your case based on the
> number there is support for rather than inflating it.

You'll note that the case i was making did not have to do with the
number of CAs, it had to do with the incentives the CAs have for
protecting the relying parties (i think they have no effective
incentives to do so).

Do you think the incentives underlying the current CA model are broken?

	--dkg

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