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Re: [TLS] Eleven out of every ten SSL certs aren't valid

Ivan Ristic <ivan.ristic@gmail.com> Tue, 29 June 2010 21:44 UTC

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On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Marsh Ray <marsh@extendedsubset.com> wrote:
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> ...
>
> I liked the suggestion about looking for https: links on the net. Scores
> could even be weighted by incoming links, a' la pagerank. If a dns name
> really has zero links to it, it's questionable whether or not its really
> relevant as a part of the web.

Isn't that exactly what we'd be getting from looking at the most
popular 1 million domain names?


> On the other hand, if your conclusion is [...]

Well, that's the thing. I didn't make any conclusions, but there are
several people on this list who assumed I did.

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Ivan Ristic
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