[SSL Observatory] Number of CAs

[Chris Palmer]

On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Peter Gutmann
<pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:

> the best analogy for what
> browsers are currently doing seems to be a protection racket.

Browser vendors don't get money when a CA signs an end-entity
certificate. When a gang extorts money for "protection", they get the
money. So that's a difference...


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