Economic Incentives in the HTTPS Authentication Process
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In this paper, the authentication system of the HTTPS protocol is considered from an economical perspective. The use of SSL certificates to authenticate web servers has a number of known technical flaws but is widely used. The different actors of the HTTPS authentication system are identified and the study of their roles and incentives for security shows the lack of a clear reason to progress towards a more secure system.
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تاریخ انتشار 2014