Moxie Marlinspike created an alternative to the CA system called Convergence[1]. His DEFCON video[2] does a good job describing the problem and his proposed so

Moxie Marlinspike created an alternative to the CA system called Convergence[1]. His DEFCON video[2] does a good job describing the problem and his proposed solution. There's a Firefox plugin for it, but Chrome has come out and said they will likely never support it[3]. [1] http://convergence.io/ http://convergence.io/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDmj_xe7EIQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDmj_xe7EIQ (you can skip the first 5 minutes; if you want to jump straight to his proposed solution, it's around 35 minutes in) [3] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/08/google_chrome_rejects_convergence/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/08/google_chrome_reject...