[SSL Observatory] Diginotar broken arrow as a tour-de-force of PKI fail

Adam Langley agl at google.com
Tue Sep 13 08:36:11 PDT 2011


On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Rob Stradling
<rob.stradling at comodo.com> wrote:
> There seems to be a requirement for the "something else" solution to not
> require the Client to have an accurate clock.

Not needing a clock is a big plus. But having a clock gets you so much
that I think we'll have to live with requiring one.

It does mean that browsers are going to have to do secure time sync though.


Cheers

AGL



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