alt Hacker News>And how many more times do we need to read this before we replace Web PKI with a system that isn't as completely insane?
You say this like it's easy and simple and we are simply not choosing to do so.
>And how many more times do we need to read this before we replace Web PKI with a system that isn't as completely insane?
You say this like it's easy and simple and we are simply not choosing to do so.
It's been obvious for a while now that root-of-trust schemes create juicy targets, and that juicy targets attract all sorts of bad behavior that wouldn't be economical if we used a web-of-trust.
Building a web-of-trust scheme that works might not be easy, but also it's not like we've been trying exceptionally hard lately either.