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SSL CA's are broken in some sense in that it's currently relatively easy to acquire rogue certs because it's a Tragedy of the Commons of the unaddressed issue o
by cat-dev-null 10y ago
SSL CA's are broken in some sense in that it's currently relatively easy to acquire rogue certs because it's a Tragedy of the Commons of the unaddressed issue of a single-source of truth, trust and cert issue authorization for cert management for a given domain.
Perhaps all CAs for should be married to internet-facing domains with an encrypted, authoritative, non-repudiable cert discovery protocol... perhaps something like DNSSEC+DANE or something else.
Likely the only way to fix the situation is make some nonrepudiable proof-of-domain-ownership mandatory before any CA can issue any cert... although that doesn't solve the other issue of clients figuring out which certs to trust, although there have been some web-of-trust efforts to improve it (un-authoritatively).
- iancarroll 10y agoIf you believe it is relatively easy to issue a certificate for a domain you do not own, I am sure many people would like to hear about it.