On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:26:33 CST, Adi Linden said: > > So what does the PKI actually buy you that using a throwaway self-signed cert > > doesn't provide? > > No popup box on the browser asking to accept the certificate.
"Pay us $1,000 or we'll annoy your users with popups". Sounds suspiciously like the extortion angle used recently against somebody who was using Windows Messenger pop-op spam to advertise their "stop pop-up spam" product. I'm however missing the actual security angle (remember that the lack of a warning doesn't mean you actually connected securely with who you thought you did).
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