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Re: Number of CAs

2013-11-18 01:39:51
On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker 
<hallam(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>wrote:

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Masataka Ohta <
mohta(_at_)necom830(_dot_)hpcl(_dot_)titech(_dot_)ac(_dot_)jp> wrote:

Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
The four most widely used browsers are all produced by US companies.

Open source helps a lot.


Not unless you compile your browser from source and verify the source each
time you compile. They have demonstrated an ability to hide compromise
pretty well.


How much can you trust your compiler. Ken Kernighan has a good essay on
this -> http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

-- Vinayak