[Elecraft] [HAM] Windows 7 and LoTW

[Bob Nielsen]

As Eric has declared this subject as CLOSED. please take the  
discussion to arrl-lotw at yahoogroups.com.  There is an ongoing thread  
on the same subject with much more detail than has been presented here.

Bob, N7XY

On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:36 AM, David Woolley (E.L) wrote:

>
> The older a certificate, the more likely the private key to have been
> broken (both from a longer time to try and because technology advances
> make it easier), or leaked, or that domain has been lost to someone  
> less
> reputable, so certificates need to have time limits.
>
> Although it is true that the certificate structure has been monetised,
> and that Microsoft bought out one of the main companies in the
> certificate business, if there is any money going to Microsoft  
> here, it
> is for inclusion of the certificate authority's root certificate in  
> the
> browser/Windows, not for the individual certificates.
>
> This also applies to Authenticode, the digial signature infrastructure
> for code, rather than web pages.  Again you can pay your money to any
> certifying authority, not just, the now Microsoft owned, Verisign.
>
> If anything, the real problem nowadays is that just too many people  
> can
> issue certificates that will be trusted by browsers/Authenticode,  
> and by
> default, they will trust certificates with very different levels of
> verification of the identity of the subject.
>
> WILLIS COOKE wrote:
>
> + what you were talking about. It appears to me to be generated by
> + Microsoft Internet Explorer rather than anything at ARRL LOTW. I  
> have
> + been getting such warnings when I try to download any software  
> that did
> + not give Microsoft its cut for some time, but this appears to be  
> a new
>
>
> -- 
> David Woolley
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