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The use of PKI referred to in the article isn't about domain names. PKI can be used for trust projection and verification beyond domain names, that is what the

• hedora 6y ago
  My point is that banks are already abusing existing trust projection and verification mechanisms in consumer-hostile ways. How would giving them even more expressive mechanisms for delegation of trust to third parties improve this situation? Edit: I say that it is “consumer hostile” because they’ve used PKI and contract law to construct a complicated system of subcontractors that allows them to process mortgages without ever providing a single cryptographic proof that anyone involved in the transaction is a representative of the bank. (And the result is that many people have recently lost their homes to fraud.)