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megoustoday at 7:48 PM1 replyview on HN

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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coldpietoday at 8:23 PM

Huh, wow. I kind of thought the whole point of CAs was to do identity verification. It they have dropped that entirely, what is the point?