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France enters the Matrix

France enters the Matrix

Posted Feb 21, 2019 3:38 UTC (Thu) by donbarry (guest, #10485)
Parent article: France enters the Matrix

Is anyone else increasingly uncomfortable with the "we'll solve the certificate problem by deferring to centralized registrars that surely keep their keys private from state actors."

I mean, this is potentially not a risk if there is a recognizable way of communicating low-bandwidth fingerprints of the next encryption level, like ZRTP verification on voice. But note how WebRTC has done the same thing? And efforts to solve the problem are talked about and then, somehow, nothing ever happens with the standards.

It's enough to drive one paranoid.


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France enters the Matrix

Posted Feb 22, 2019 23:10 UTC (Fri) by Arathorn (guest, #101018) [Link]

Well, the last half of the talk in the OP is discussing how we've implemented ZRTP-style verification for E2E, so that even if the servers can't be trusted, you still have trust through to the end parties you're talking to. So yes, we'd prefer not to be moving to conventional CAs, it's probably for the greater good right now (as fun as it'd be to be burning time reinventing CAs rather than building Matrix).


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