[smc-discuss] The SSL certificate authority problem and DANE, its solution

[Joshina Jagajilli]

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/new-free-certificate-authority-dramatically-increase-encrypted-internet-traffic

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Pirate Praveen <praveen at onenetbeyond.org>
wrote:

> You can read this post for a rationale why we need DANE
> https://poddery.com/posts/1461563
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> Get this add on
> https://addons.mozilla.org/cs/firefox/addon/dnssec-validator/
>
> If you are using autistici.org services, you'd have noticed they use
> their own ssl certificates and browsers show a warning when connecting
> via https. Now with this addon, there is a new methid available to
> browsers to authenticate the site in addition to the earlier manual
> method of addin ca certs.
>
> I hope people who are active in the mozilla community will push through
> their contacts to get this implemented in all mozilla products.
>
> It is a pity that mozilla is not planning to support this protocol
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672600
>
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