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If you don't distribute the pin along with the browser you don't get TLS forced on the first connection. As you yourself said in the other thread TLS+TACK doesn't solve this either. So this is hardly a fundamental property of TLS.



Browser trust anchors aren't a fundamental property of HTTPS/TLS? That's like saying "TLS is insecure if you don't distribute any root certificates with your browser".


Really? You're arguing that a feature that was first implemented in 2011 is a fundamental property of TLS? And are you also arguing that the whole web should have Google/Firefox/IE/Safari ship a certificate pin with the browser? That will surely scale...

If we're doing that why do we need CA's at all? Just ship pins of self-signed certificates to all the browsers and trust Google with the integrity of the database.


Your browser could also be a trojan.




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