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 More options Jan 29 2010, 2:42 am
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.security.policy
From: makrober <makro...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:42:33 +0000
Local: Fri, Jan 29 2010 2:42 am
Subject: Re: CNNIC Root Inclusion
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Johnathan Nightingale wrote:
> 1) We have never claimed as a matter of policy that our PKI decisions
> can protect people from malicious governments. It's just not a plausible
> promise for us to make.

With due respect, "never have made the promise" just doesn't cut it in
my eyes. To turn it around: never was there any warning to the user base
that there is some "special class" of miscreants that Mozilla would not
protect the users from. This can be explained (but not excused) by the
mindset of those that instituted the process: in their minds, "governments",
by definition, can't be miscreants. I and (as that discussion on bugzilla
demonstrates) many, many, others do not share this mindset.

Perhaps it is time to review the process. It would be smart to take Mozilla
out of the trust business. At the very least, all root certificates that
are included should not be trusted until the user explicitly turns those he
or she knows and trusts (and needs for his or her transactions) on.

MacRober


 
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