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tptacek • yesterday at 9:46 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Your counterproposal is simply to expand the number of individuals who get to make those global judgements!


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quotemstr • yesterday at 9:51 PM

How so? In the current regime, I can obtain a certificate automatically via ACME. if I control the domain, so to retain control over myexample.com, I need to trust the DNS infrastructure up to my TLD and trust every CA, including the "my secret key is return 4" crowd

In a DANE world, I need only trust the DNS authorities, and there are ways to boost trust in, e.g. the dot-com key management. (Could even go full ring signatures if we wanted.)

Someone over on foo.wtf.lol can't hurt me.

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