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The CA trust model is totally broken! We pay certificate of authority CA companies a lot of money for certificates that are not fully confirmed to be authentic.
by acd 8y ago
The CA trust model is totally broken! We pay certificate of authority CA companies a lot of money for certificates that are not fully confirmed to be authentic.
Here is a better model. You normally register your company with the local government corporate registration authority. The local government knows who this company is, who the corporate registrars are.
One should use a digital ID card to apply to register a company. The founders sign the registration of the company with their personal digital ID. The company is then registered. To apply for a domain name for a company should be digitally signed. The registration government authority should handle certificate of authentic not foreign CA registrars.
All corporations should use Government CAs all other types of certificates can then be issued by Lets Encrypt having proper DNS validation in place should help there too.
All else is broken security by design.
- clon 8y ago> One should use a digital ID card to apply to register a company. The founders sign the registration of the company with their personal digital ID. The company is then registered. To apply for a domain name for a company should be digitally signed. The registration government authority should handle certificate of authentic not foreign CA registrars. You must be from Estonia. Or on crack. I'm guessing Estonia. A lifetime of experience has convinced me that we will have hoverboards, hell, self-flying hoverboards, before such a scheme becomes the universal norm.