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Re: [TLS] TLS, PKI,

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Thu, 22 July 2010 05:56 UTC

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Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> writes:

>The concept that you describe is commonly known as "faith". "trust" in the
>security area used to have a very different meaning.

It's often not even faith, it's psychotic trust.  I'm not sure if there's a
specific term for this though.

Peter.

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