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Comment by LinuxBender

3 years ago

Public key pinning has been mostly abandoned on popular websites due to high risk of prolonged outages should someone make a mistake and mistakes do happen.

There are browser addons that replicate this behavior however and some Jabber clients/servers apparently have their own mechanism for this [1] but one can only hope everyone is using the combination of servers and clients that support this feature.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37956911