Is the CA market broken?

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Wed, 12 June 2013 17:38 UTC

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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:35:23 -0400
From: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
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I'd like to bring to your attention the following paper:

http://weis2013.econinfosec.org/papers/AsghariWEIS2013.pdf

What it says is that there is market concentration, no race to the
bottom for price, and that technical solutions may be the best
approach.  A key callout from the talk was the conflict within the
browser community between assuring security and assuring connectivity.

DANE is also called out in the paper.

A reminder: Cisco has an open RFP at http://www.cisco.com in the area of
HTTP2, and a separate one on Internet Economics.  This would be covered
by either or both.

Eliot