[Freedombox-discuss] [cryptography] trustable self-signed certs in a P2P environment (freedombox)

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Trevor Perrin <trevp at trevp.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:26:38 -0800
To: Adam Back <adam at cypherspace.org>
Cc: cryptography at randombit.net
Subject: Re: [cryptography] trustable self-signed certs in a P2P environment
	(freedombox)

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Adam Back <adam at cypherspace.org> wrote:
> Its rather common for people with load balancers and lots of servers serving
> the same domain to have multiple certs.

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:05:29PM -0800, Peter Eckersley wrote:
>> Perspectives/Convergence suffer from the problem that there is no way to
>> tell the difference between "the server was reinstalled and now has a new key"
>> and "the whole world sees an attack in progress".

There's a Convergence proposal to address the above issues, but it
requires some effort by the site:

https://github.com/moxie0/Convergence/wiki/TACK


Trevor
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