If a CA's private key is stolen, everything is cracked ?

From: johngibson1541@yahoo.com
Date: Thu Dec 14 2006 - 04:12:16 ART

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Am I thinking straight ?

For example, if Verisign's private key is stolen, the entire verisign
 server have to shutdown (or be suspended until its certificate expires) ?

Isn't that very dangerous? Any engineer of verisign could steal that private key,
right? Core dump.

John

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