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Everyone can be a certificate authorithy. The problem is that browsers only recognize a small number of authorities and display a scary message for others.
by antninja 13y ago
Everyone can be a certificate authorithy. The problem is that browsers only recognize a small number of authorities and display a scary message for others.
- LinaLauneBaer 13y agoAccording to the article those 600+ authorities are all trusted by the browsers... Quote: "Break into any Certificate Authority (or compromise the web applications that feed into it). As we learned from the SSL Observatory project, there are 600+ Certificate Authorities that your browser will trust; the attacker only needs to find one of those 600 that she is capable of breaking into."