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but all decentralised proposals I've ever seen fall over at scale, or become basically the CA system when applied at a big enough scale. I would like to be poi

by rtpg 11y ago

but all decentralised proposals I've ever seen fall over at scale, or become basically the CA system when applied at a big enough scale. I would like to be pointed out to be wrong here, though. the current CA system bugs me for the "one CA compromised" aspect.

arpa 11y ago
What about DANE? I would imagine it has potential to do away with CA...
- icebraining 11y ago
  https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/01/17/notdane.html https://www.imperialviolet.org/2015/01/17/notdane.html
  - arpa 11y ago
    Well that definitely answers my question. Thank you. What about something like certificate blockchain? e.g. https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain
    - hannob 11y ago
      It already exists and is called Certificate Transparency: https://www.certificate-transparency.org/ https://www.certificate-transparency.org/
      - arpa 11y ago
        holy sh*t it's learning day today! Thanks!