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

  • From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Haiku ML <haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 18:09:05 -0400

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Stefano Ceccherini
<stefano.ceccherini@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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?

Nope, I personally suspect that the "official" Certificate Authorities
have been compromised, but for now that is not a problem Haiku can
solve, that is an issue for the wider internet.

What I am advocating is ensuring that Haiku itself is not compromised
as an endpoint. There has been statements from Snowden and others that
Windows and other commercial OSes are inherently compromised and that
therefore even if you encrypted something the plaintext might have
already been exposed.

-- 
Regards,
Ryan

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