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toast0 • today at 7:17 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

WebPKI can't eject the bad actors that would cause trouble in DANE either. If your TLD conspires against you, they can certainly establish domain control and get a properly issued WebPKI cert.

Visibility through Certificate Transparency logs would at least make it a matter of record that it occurred, though.


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tptacek • today at 7:19 PM

The WebPKI semi-routinely kills certificate authorities. The point is that you can't kill a TLD operator.

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