[AusNOG] Lets Encrypt

[Sam Wilson]

Exactly why Peter titled a chapter in his book "Security Guarantees
from vending machines" -
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/book.pdf

.On that note though, how many in this profession do you see asking
for gpg fpr's or verifying checksums?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Tristram Cheer
<tristram.cheer at ubergroup.co.nz> wrote:
> Would you trust a CA who gave out certs to anyone with a credit card?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Alex Samad - Yieldbroker
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2014 12:42 p.m.
> To: Ernie; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Lets Encrypt
>
> Would you trust a CA who gave our certs to any one ?
>
> Alex
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of
>> Ernie
>> Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2014 10:34 AM
>> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> Subject: [AusNOG] Lets Encrypt
>>
>> I was just reading on Slashdot this morning about a new certificate
>> authority caleed Let's Encrypt which is a joint effort from EFF,
>> Mozilla, Cisco, and Akamai to encrypt the Internet. It's going to be a
>> non-profit organization that issues free certificates for any website.
>>
>> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/certificate-authority-encrypt-
>> entire-web
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>> https://letsencrypt.org/
>>
>> My question is, will this screw up companies like Verisign/Thawte sales?
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>> - Ernie.
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