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The centralization argument still has merit. If this catches on big time, there's only one company to coerce/compromise, to backdoor a bunch of services at once
by scintill76 12y ago
The centralization argument still has merit. If this catches on big time, there's only one company to coerce/compromise, to backdoor a bunch of services at once.
Arguably the CA/ISP structure is like this already, but this may be worse.
- cbg0 12y agoHasn't this been the case with people using SSL on Amazon's ELB?
- DrJosiah 12y agoYes, Amazon's ELB has always been a potential attack target for people who want to get to unencrypted data.
- MCRed 12y agoTotally true, but on the other hand, the first mile will be encrypted for a lot more connections: "Yesterday, there were about 2 million sites active on the Internet that supported encrypted connections. By the end of the day today, we'll have doubled that." That's kind of spectacular. I think the first mile is one of the key places where data gets stolen. OF course the final millimeters-on the server- is another.
- sarciszewski 12y agoYes, but this (free SSL everywhere) can (and should!) become the bandwagon that all other service/hosting providers and CAs should adopt.