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What you’re describing is not a known weakness in the CA system, and doesn’t even really touch on the actual known issues with implementing PKI. The CA is not a
by AmericanChopper 6y ago
What you’re describing is not a known weakness in the CA system, and doesn’t even really touch on the actual known issues with implementing PKI. The CA is not a point of failure. If one CA fails to sign your certificate, you just get one from a different CA. If a CA that had already signed your certificate vanishes, nothing fails because your existing certificates do not suddenly become unsigned.
The core issues with PKI are establishing trust. The only way to do that for most applications requires an authority. You’re not improving the system by requiring multiple authorities to sign every certificate. You’re not making things less authority-reliant or more resilient. You’re just making it more complicated, and leaving the real underlying issues around authentication unchanged.