[Cryptography] Commercial PKI as dog poop

Salz, Rich rsalz at akamai.com
Thu May 13 12:40:22 EDT 2021


>    A CDN is "non origin certification"

>    Meaning the owner of the certificate has no control over
    the name, and the owner of the name has no control over
    the owner of the certificate casually redirecting the
    name to a machine controlled by someone else.

You do not know what you are talking about.

The fact that DNS says www.example.com is a host that is not where you, as an individual, think it should be, is not anyone's problem but your expectation.




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