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Comment by codedokode

3 years ago

So SSL certificates are completely unreliable; we should only wait until Russian or Chinese comrades find a good use for this attack (e.g. temporary redirecting Western traffic using BGP to validate a Let's Encrypt's cert for Western site).

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codedokode

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bananapub  3 years ago

yes? this is a well-known problem, which is why CAA-ACME etc and certificate transparency logs exist.

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