engine - 5:03 pm on Nov 22, 2011 (gmt 0)

New Proposal To Strengthen Public Key Infrastructure, SSL Chain [computerworld.com]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is proposing an extension to the current SSL chain of trust that aims to improve the security of HTTPS and other secure communication protocols. EFF's "Sovereign Keys" (SK) specification is designed to give domain owners control over the link between their domain names and their certificates after recent Certificate Authority (CA) compromises raised serious questions about the security of the entire Internet Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).