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jessaustin on April 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Heartbleed should bleed X.509 to death

He who controls a Queen can make functionally equivalent copies of every Princess and Princess-baby in the Queen’s lineage. They have the skeleton keys to your ‘secure’ kingdom and could at any time decide to become a fraud factory and dish out copies of your keys to whomever they fancy.

In a sense, it's worse than that, because a "queen" can actually sign (correctly or not) any "princess-baby" in any "lineage".

PhantomGremlin on April 10, 2014 [–]

YES YES YES, 1000 TIMES YES!!!!

Unfortunately not too many people know this, and it's a really important issue.

BTW like a lot of other people here, I didn't like the "Queen" analogy. IMO it didn't make the explanation any simpler.

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