[SSL Observatory] Number of CAs

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Mon Dec 12 16:05:11 PST 2011


Chris Palmer <snackypants at gmail.com> writes:

>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...

Yeah, that's really just a technicality though.  It's an analogy, not a
literal model.

Peter.



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