alt Hacker NewsYour DNS provider can obtain a TLS certificate for your domain and cryptographically impersonate https://yourdomain.tld
It's not exactly the same thing but it's close.
Your DNS provider can obtain a TLS certificate for your domain and cryptographically impersonate https://yourdomain.tld
It's not exactly the same thing but it's close.
Still not the same thing as in the article. Server side TLS certificates are widely understood to be tied to the current owner of the domain.
In a social protocol or context, I would expect a private key to be in the private control of the individual, such as when someone uses their private key to sign an email or git commit.
The purpose of signing your emails or commits is to provide a good indicator that it actually came from you, not someone who managed to get access to your email account at the time.