Re: [Lynx-dev] TLS-"transport layer security" & LYNX

[Mouse]

>>> protection from the NSA and other governments and companies
>> _That_ protection was blown when the first wildcard cert was issued
> If I own example.com and I get a cert for *.example.com how is that
> insecure?

Because there is no technical difference between that and a cert for
*.com or *.qc.ca: there is no way to tell, when presented with the
cert, whether everything covered by it is under common administration.

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