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# Certificate authority and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
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>Should CA exist in 2k20?
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--- Me
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>no.
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>I don't see a problem in self-signed ceritificates for web to be
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>honest. Instead of relying on CA, browser should remember it's
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>fingerprint and warn if it was changed.
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--- a1batross
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>please add certificate chains and the insane prices from verisign or
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>such that are literally a govt-funded scam :DDDD
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--- caskd
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Ever wondered why you have to pay to secure your website? Or trust
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whatever ACME is?
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There are companies who got their crypto signatures hardcoded in
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browsers, so the browser automatically accepts that signature without
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asking you. And you have to ***renew*** the cert every year/3
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months/dunno. This wouldn't happen with self signed certs, since you
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don't have to renew them ever because... you made them...
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When you visit a website that doesn't have a certificate signed by a
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shill, you get this:
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<img src="shills.png" width="500"/>
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Browser may say that the website is insecure and shit, but it isn't:
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the connection is still **perfectly** secure between you and the
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server. Or even stronger, since self signed certs can be whatever you
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want, RSA8192, ECC512, you name it.
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I trust more **my friend's** signature than some random corporation,
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who got their signature *hardcoded* in browsers.
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## Why does this thing exist?
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* Corps can make money out of this
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* Monopolies, It's not that easy to get your signature hardcoded in
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browsers.
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## Alternatives
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* What a1batross said.
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* TOFU: (Trust on first use) (What ssh prompts when you log in for
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first time)
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* Use .onion, .i2p, .loki... Any of those works without CA and it's
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perfectly end to end encrypted
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## Alternatives
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* plain text
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* org-mode
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* Jumping in the eye of a hurricane
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* not run by a russian mobster
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* Descentralizated
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* Built-in cryptography
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* You can enable encryption in a desktop client
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* You can setup your own server
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* Does not require phone number
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## xmpp advantages over Signal
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* Does not require phone number (kek, a privacy oriented software
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requires your phone number)
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* You can trust the encryption
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* You can setup your own server
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## xmpp flaws
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