Update – you can watch the video here.
Please join CITP this Friday from 9AM to 11AM for an event entitled “Emerging Threats to Online Trust: The Role of Public Policy and Browser Certificates.” The event will focus on the trustworthiness of the technical and policy structures that govern certificate-based browser security. It will include representatives from government, browser vendors, certificate authorities, academics, and hackers. For more information see:
http://citp.princeton.edu/events/emerging-threats-to-online-trust/
Several Freedom-to-Tinker posts have explored this set of issues:
- (Feb 16, 2010) Mozilla Debates Whether to Trust Chinese CA
- (Feb 22, 2010) Web Security Trust Models
- (Feb 23, 2010) Web Certification Fail: Bad Assumptions Lead to Bad Technology
- (Aug 02, 2010) A Major Internet Milestone: DNSSEC and SSL
- (Oct 04, 2010) General Counsel’s Role in Shoring Up Authentication Practices Used in Secure Communications
Ouch! Linked the way it is, merely opening the freedom-to-tinker home page (or this story’s page) initiates a 741MB download from the featured video’s server. For those of us on metered connections, this is non-optimal 😉
Sorry about that.