BlackHat USA 2011: SSL And The Future Of Authenticity

What this video covers

Moxie Marlinspike's BlackHat 2011 talk examines weaknesses of SSL and the certificate authority system and proposes Convergence, a decentralized notary approach with trust agility.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

HN commenters repeatedly recommend it as the best explanation of why the CA system is broken and what alternatives exist.

Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

“I highly recommend watching his Blackhat 2011 talk”

“Start by watching this Blackhat talk I linked elsewhere in the thread, the guy has the right kind of ideas”

“best talk I know of this subject”