Re: The state-level attack on the SSL CA security model

["Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>]

On Mar 25, 2011, at 5:21 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:

> I can't see how a practice that is completely acceptable at the root certificate level is a danger so significant 
> that state-secret-like
> treatment is called for once end-user certificates are involved.

Again, I don't know enough about what happened to form an opinion one way or another.  I'm just setting forth some 
reasons which spring to mind for not announcing this immediately, that's all.

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