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by pryce 2652 days ago
It's amazing that we anticipate having to revoke malicious CAs as a crucial part of a security model, yet we have basically no plan to ensure that we don't accept a competent-but-malicious CA into the fold in the first place.
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Competency in this case can be objectively reinforced, but maliciousness requires one to device who is “bad” and who is “good” which is not a technical problem.