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RE: Can it really get worse?
by Lennie on Tue 6th Sep 2011 11:14 UTC in reply to "Can it really get worse?"
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If the Dutch government would get only a few things right, they would be doing things better than DigiNotar and would prevent many other attacks.

I think the Dutch government could have one team in one organisation that handle offline signing.

That means it is not in any way connected to the online world like DigiNotar.

They check a number of things (simplified):
- they receive a request by PGP-signed email

- check if they are on the contact-list and PGP checks out.

- look at the name of the request and see if it oesn't have * or other silly things like municipality X does not need to create a certificate for the website of municipality Y.

- call the people at the other end if they send the email

- check the numbers on the certificate request over the phone.

- create the certificate

- email it back, PGP signed.

Done, much more secure than what they had before.

Edited 2011-09-06 11:15 UTC

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