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

[Franck Martin <fmartin () linkedin com>]

On 3/26/11 15:36 , "Joe Sniderman" <joseph.sniderman () thoroquel org> wrote:

> On 03/25/2011 11:12 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> > On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:19 52PM, Akyol, Bora A wrote:
> >
> > > One could argue that you could try something like the facebook
> > > model (or facebook itself). I can see it coming. Facebook web of
> > > trust app ;-)
> > Except, of course, for the fact that people tend to have hundreds of
> > "friends", many of whom they don't know at all, and who achieved that
> > status simply by asking.  You need a much stronger notion of
> > interaction, to say nothing of what the malware in your "friends'"
> > computers are doing to simulate such interaction.
>
> Then again there are all the "friend us for a chance to win $prize"
> gimmicks... not a far jump to "friend us, _with trust bits enabled_ for
> a chance to win $prize"
>
> Yeah sounds like a wonderful idea. :P

Wasn't PGP based on a web of trust too?