On 12/05/2008 09:17 AM, Nelson Bolyard:
Ian,
Now, in contrast to that, I have been led to believe that Skype's:
- protocols, security designs and parameters are proprietary, secret, have
not been openly published, and thus not subjected to public scrutiny
- components are all proprietary. Their clients only interoperate with their
servers and their other clients. It's a closed system, as far as I know.
- security claims are not independently verifiable by those who have no
economic interest in keeping unfavorable findings secret
Nelson, you know what truly amazes me? That people like Ian actually
promote a closed, proprietary source and proprietary standards,
unaudited and secretive model of a commercial vendor who's product locks
in its users and who's security model is highly questionable. All this
in order to bash PKI, CAs and digital certificates. I wonder if this has
something to do with a certain CA not being included in NSS?
--
Regards
Signer: Eddy Nigg, StartCom Ltd.
Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Blog: https://blog.startcom.org
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