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Re: International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs.



Thor (Hammer of God) wrote:


Of course the CA has to gain the trust of the users... There are many uses for client-based certificates: code signing, user verification, email encryption, automatic mapping of user account to personal certificates, blah blah blah. The business model of commercial CA's is most certainly not limited to server operators only. While personal certificate stores come with pre-trusted root certificates from many CA's to automatically trust many server-based functions, there is a vast market for client certs.

Yes, and how many average users do you know of who know this?

I know quite a number of average users and know of absolutely 0 who would be aware of this.

            -Barry