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Re:Validating SSL Certificates in Non-Browser Software (2012... by Eun on Friday August 23, 2019 @04:21PM (#20782172)
In a typical consumer network every device is getting a (more/less) random ip address by dhcp. So there is no guarantee that the dns name will always point to the right ip address, therefore it is impossible to use a fixed dns name. This fact makes it impossible to get a valid certificate. Especially not from let’s encrypt.

In easy words: You use example.com for your IoT device. Where should example.com point to? To all possible ip addresses? I don’t think so...

Besides that you need a private key on the iot device for decrypting the tls traffic, imagine somebody gets access to the device and now can basically mitm all other devices...

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