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Replacing X.509 requires that every site you want to visit switch away from
X.509 as well.

Convincing the whole world to embrace a crypto flag day is an enormously
bigger task than bolting kludges onto an established standard.

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 11/23/2014 7:33 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
>
>> The extension provides a dialog where you configure which factors to
>> consider and how to weigh them, with reasonable defaults to get you
>> started.
>>
>
> What I don't understand -- and maybe don't want to understand -- is why
> you are jumping through hoops to bolt kludges onto X.509 instead of working
> to replace X.509 with something that has verifiable trust baked in.
>
> --
> Rich P.
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