Re: [Sks-devel] Unde(r)served HKPS [was: Underserved areas?]

2018-01-13 Thread Heiko Richter
Hi, fist of all CACert is total crap. They have been removed from the linux distributions they were (falsely) included in and no browser ever trusted them because they can't seem to pass the security audits. I realize this comment will probably cause me a lot of ranting but it has to be said that

Re: [Sks-devel] Unde(r)served HKPS [was: Underserved areas?]

2018-01-13 Thread dirk astrath
Hi Kristian, A misissued cert could still be used if attacker is persistent enough. Either through dns poision or other attack vectors. And yes, I only issue certs to servers I recognize to have been in the pool for a while and operator should be in the openpgp wot strong-set. Maybe it's wis

Re: [Sks-devel] Underserved areas?

2018-01-13 Thread dirk astrath
Hi, various regional pools.  It seems that the NA and OC pools quite often contain hosts that are in Europe.  This could be because physical geography and internet routing are two very different things but I think more likely it is because the system(s) that are being used to measure server perf