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traceroute66today at 5:08 PM1 replyview on HN

> No dependency on a registrar sounds nice.

Actually the main benefit is no dependency on DNS (booth direct and root).

IP is a simple primitive, i.e. "is it routable or not ?".


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saltcuredtoday at 5:57 PM

The popular HTTP validation method has the same drawback whether using DNS or IP certificates? Namely, if you can compromise routes to hijack traffic, you can also hijack the validation requests. Right?