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trevp on Sept 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: New NSA Leak Shows MITM Attacks Against Major Inte...

Re "become your own CA" - that's basically the idea.

The "pin activation" algorithm is intended to make it difficult for a MITM to foist bad pins on clients, and to limit the lifetime of such pins.

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