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Pluralistic: 09 Nov 2022 Delegating trust is really, really, really hard (infosec edition)


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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on November 9, 2022November 15, 2022Categories UncategorizedTags browsers, certificate authorities, certificate transparency, conspiratorialism, infosec, lawful interception, merkle trees, mozilla, msgsafe, packet forensics, panama, pas, Raymond Saulino, security, snake oil, trust, trustcor, trusting trust, vostrom holdings1 Comment on Pluralistic: 09 Nov 2022 Delegating trust is really, really, really hard (infosec edition)

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