[haiku] Re: Haiku as the easy-to-use, free, open, secure OS

  • From: Stefano Ceccherini <stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 23:34:06 +0200

Il giorno 06/set/2013 19:31, "Ryan Leavengood" <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> ha
scritto:
>
> Unless you are hiding under a rock, you have heard about what the evil
> American NSA has been up to (as an American, I am ashamed about what
> our government has become.
> I've thought about our keychain system and intend to build a Haiku
> crypto API using the latest and best technologies. While there has
> been a lot of fear-mongering, it appears that good old symmetric
> encryption is still very secure.

Cryptography is useless if you don't know for certain the identity of the
other endpoint, whom you are talking to. The US government (or any
government, actually), can control the certificators which emit the SSL
certificates: do you trust every "trusted" authority whose certificates are
already registered in any browser?

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