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Re:MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back t... by moonchild on Thursday July 09, 2020 @04:01AM (#23777966)
> replacing (or extending) CAs with Tor's public key cryptography

Which is good because CAs are useless; they're complete overhead. Back when EV certificates meant something, they were marginally useful, but at this point, we might as well just switch to a TXT record that validates domain ownership. (Obviously, that doesn't protect against DNS MITM attacks, but that's a separate issue.)

Re:MoreOnionsPorfavor: Onionize your website and take back t... by t0astbread on Thursday July 09, 2020 @06:34AM (#23778715)
Oh you mean storing some data to cryptographically verify that a particular server is associated with a domain? If I'm not mistaken, that's what .onion addresses are.

I wonder if anyone has tried putting .onion addresses into DNS and have clients treat them like address records...