On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Cheng Renquan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Soh Kam Yung <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > >From [
> http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/mozilla-debates-whether-trust-chinese-ca
> ].
> >  Read also [http://lwn.net/Articles/372386/].
> >
> > =====
> > Mozilla Debates Whether to Trust Chinese CA
>
> yes, CNNIC definitely cannot be trusted,
>

Dan Kaminsky made a comment to the article on February 18th, 2010 at 2:27
am.:

> Do you really think that China's only now getting a "god mode" certificate?
>
> Go research GeoRoot, or any of the other "we'll sell you a full
> intermediate if you promise to be nice" offerings.


The CA system is broken for people who are concerned about that level of
threat.  I'm already able to generate a certificate with arbitrary subject
dn that chains to a trusted CA . Surely those with resources of a state
agency have been able to do at least as much for a longer time.
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