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Re:Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet by branzo on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:44AM (#21877268)
If u have a state-owned, state-run DNS service with a root zone and cooperation (forced or not) from ISPs, you really would not have to care about https, and if CT services are not reachable nobody would know.
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Re:Russia 'successfully tests' its unplugged internet by antpls on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @03:06AM (#21877525)
How would that work ?

Aren't there private and public keys involved ? Public keys are pre-packaged with clients (Firefox/Chrome/etc), so the state can't just change or fake the private keys.

Maybe they would force all clients to prepackage a government key and then change all infrastructure to pretend all websites use this public key for their https traffic?

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