[liberationtech] Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys

[Nick]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:19:22AM +0200, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> (See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence_(SSL) )

Would Convergence help here? I can't see how. If a government
secretly aquired the SSL private keys for a site, and the site
continued using them, then no convergence notary would know any
cause not to vouch for the key.