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tptacek • yesterday at 6:50 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

This is a really, really dumb way of doing online spying (presumably, you mean by running a program of deliberate misissuance) since every cert they issue is recorded in a public cryptographic ledger.

I'm not saying this will never happen, just that rolling out a dramatic infrastructure change for "data sovereignty" just to pull off a SIGINT heist that is almost certain to get your CA distrusted seems like a poor risk/reward calculation. I fully expect IC agencies to get some CAs killed and be fine with that.


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waz0wski • yesterday at 7:06 PM

Yep, but it was an easy zero-touch MITM vector for billions of devices that's only now being closed down

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eigenform • yesterday at 7:06 PM

In any case, not much sovereignty to gain from only 8 bits :^(