Thursday, September 22, 2011 8:25 AM
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Diginotar declared bankrupt - SANS Internet Storm Center
In the latest installment of this seemingly never-ending saga, a Dutch court in Haarlem (NL) declared DigiNotar bankrupt.
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The CA business is all about selling trust. After all a CA is
supposed to be a trusted third party. Let's hope all the remaining ones
get the right message: it's not about not getting caught being hacked.
On the contrary: it's about doing the right thing once you have been
hacked. Let's hope it leads to more transparency and public scrutiny of
the CAs we trust explicitly or implicitly though the choice of some of
our vendors.
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Swa Frantzen -- Section 66