"James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> writes:
Eric Rescorla
Nonsense. One can simply cache the certificate, exactly as one does with SSH. In fact, Mozilla at least does exactly this if you tell it to. The reason that this is uncommon is because the environments where HTTPS is used are generally spontaneous and therefore certificate caching is less useful.
Certificate caching is not the problem that needs solving. The problem is all this spam attempting to fool people into logging in to fake BofA websites and fake e-gold websites, to steal their passwords or credit card numbers
The only solutions to that problem involve getting rid of passwords and credit card numbers. SSL does that job about as well as we know how. -Ekr -- [Eric Rescorla ekr@rtfm.com] http://www.rtfm.com/