2 years ago an expert in SSL security - Moxie Marlinspike - proposed an alternative to CA's - notaries, a kind of reversed certificate authority. the project is called convergence. It hasn't taken off yet, but the idea is very much worth pondering.
https://github.com/moxie0/Convergence
defcon talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDmj_xe7EIQ
Discussion with Whitefield Diffie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt7uW6vDk00
Contrary to the beliefs of some bitcoin core developers I think CA's are thoroughly broken, and the use of them makes bitcoin worse, not better. SSL was a quick hack by a netscape engineer 20 years ago.
Topic: Payment protocol and alternatives to SSL - convergence/notaries (Read 687 times)
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