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Re: Chinese root CA issues rogue/fake certificates


From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 12:19:51 +0200

On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:36:57AM +1000,
 Matt Palmer <mpalmer () hezmatt org> wrote 
 a message of 45 lines which said:

I'd be surprised if most business continuity people could even name
their cert provider,

And they're right because it would be a useless information: without
DANE, *any* CA can issue a certificate for *your* domain, whether you
are a client or not.


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