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Convergence Beta

Posted on 16 January 2012

From: Thoughtcrime Labs

It was created after the hack of DigiNotar certificate authority has brought to light a major weakness in the underlying security architecture of the Web.

Rather than simply trusting a signed certificate, Convergence checks with several trusted certificate sites, or notaries. If all of the parties agree that the certificate is accurate, it's OK to go ahead and use the site. However, if the notaries detect a difference between what they have as valid certificates and what the browser is seeing, then the certificate will be flagged and the user can avoid that site.

 

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