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coldpietoday at 7:20 PM1 replyview on HN

How do I know that the DNS record is owned by the entity they are claiming to be? CAs have nothing to do with caching.


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megoustoday at 7:48 PM

You don't know that even with DNS validated certificates. There's no separate "entity" claim other than "anybody with DNS record modification rights for a given domain".

You can give out the same claim over DNS directly without any extra third party involvement in the form of CA.

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