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UltraSane • yesterday at 3:56 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

"any CA (Certificate Authority) can create TLS certificates for almost any website."

This has always been incredibly stupid.


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bombcar • yesterday at 4:04 PM

You can pin, but almost nobody does (and half the world that does pin is probably pinned to Let's Encrypt).

Those who manage the root domains should have been able to pin who they trust, and then if you WANTED to you could add someone beyond what .com or .egg or .muffin lists.

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binlog • yesterday at 4:00 PM

Why? How do you pin a website to a specific cert provider? And what happens when you want to switch?

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