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Re:6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available by ycombinatrix on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:49PM (#46652013)
>it would be a grave error to issue an IP cert without active insight into BGP

Why? Even regular certs are handed out via IP address.

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Re:6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available by hojofpodge on Saturday January 17, 2026 @06:10AM (#46657094)
> why we are wasting so much time on utterly wrong TOFU authorization? If you are supposed to have an establishable identity I think there is DNSSEC back to the registrar

They retire challenges that were once acceptable. What happens if they require a real chain of trust? They retire http and domain names keep working on DNS/DNSSEC.

Making IP with only http challenges is going backwards.

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