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otabdeveloper4 • today at 11:46 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> That still requires trust stores to be distributed to the clients

There's no such thing as a "trust store" in practice. To be "trusted" you just need to demonstrate you have control over a DNS TXT record, and we don't need a special "store" or intermediary for that.

Certificate authorities are an artifact of a bygone time and an entirely different model of internet infrastructure.


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woodruffw • today at 12:22 PM

The trust store refers to the collection of parties that ultimately verify the signed claim of your control over a domain, which might have taken the form of a DNS TXT challenge (or any other number of challenges). You still need it, because there would otherwise be a basic circularity when determining whether to trust a connection.

(Moving the PKI into DNS does not remove it, it just moves it around.)

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