Gervase Markham via dev-security-policy <dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org> writes:
>Peter: you are going to have to re-summarise your question. And then, if you >are asking why Mozilla code works in a certain way, mozilla.dev.security or >mozilla.dev.tech.crypto are almost certainly far better venues. Sure, no problem. I was just replying to a post by Kathleen on this list, and it seemed like a policy issue so I figured it was the right forum. I'll CC it to dev.security as well... The original post was about the fact the Mozilla runs into lots of problems with top-down path construction: >Indeed, and as per your comment here: >https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1056341#c24 I asked: So just to satisfy my curiosity, it's been known ever since top-down construction was first advocated by PKI loon^H^H^Htheoreticians: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoOrmK4OueY that you work bottom-up, not top-down. If that's not obvious just from about a beer's worth of analysis then it should have been when one of said PKI theoreticians described trying to implement it at a conference and pointed out that his implementation ran for three days without terminating, after which he tried the same thing again. Did no-one see that this was going to happen? Why would anyone try and do it this way? Rather baffled minds want to know... Peter. _______________________________________________ dev-security-policy mailing list dev-security-policy@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy
