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List:       cap-talk
Subject:    Re: [cap-talk] FW: x.509 -- MD5 considered harmful today
From:       David Mercer <radix42 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-09-08 13:39:54
Message-ID: 4aa65eac.19015a0a.291f.2ae2 () mx ! google ! com
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I know this has drifted OT, but one last point below...


-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Barth <cap-talk@adambarth.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 11:28 PM
To: General discussions concerning capability systems. <cap-talk@mail.eros-os.org>
Subject: Re: [cap-talk] FW: x.509 -- MD5 considered harmful today

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 10:27 AM, David Mercer<radix42@gmail.com> wrote:
> No idea why the 'big boys' in banking can't do this 'correctly' when a tiny CU does \
> (maybe because they are in the bay area and hired the right silicon valley geeks \
> for the design).

It's possible that the scaling issues only became an issue at scale.

Adam


I seriously doubt that the likes of BofA and Citi couldn't afford the capital \
investment of front-end hardware ssl accelerators, especially before the recent \
banking crash, they just chose not to make it.

That would seem to handle their scaling issues easily.

-david mercer 
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