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Re:Certificate Authorities and the Fragility of Internet Safety by nshkrdotcom on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @10:14PM (#42324492)
Getting to a trustless decentralized name authority has shown to be elusive.
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Re:Certificate Authorities and the Fragility of Internet Safety by theamk on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @10:50PM (#42324780)
"trustless decentralized" is the last thing I want from my name authority.

When I enter some-entity.com, I want to know I'll end up at some-entity's website, even if said entity made some mistakes in the past, like forgetting to renew it [0]. I also want paypa1.com and friends to be down permanently, not to serve fishing pages.

[0] https://www.techdirt.com/2003/11/06/microsoft-forgets-to-ren...

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