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I asked a cloudflare engineer this and the answer was a bit vague but amounted to the failure rate being something like 0.5% which was too high for the amount o
by eldridgea 3y ago
I asked a cloudflare engineer this and the answer was a bit vague but amounted to the failure rate being something like 0.5% which was too high for the amount of TLS sessions being initiated all the time.
Although I always thought it would be a nice feature for security conscious folks to be able to ennable. Or go ahead and use it on more sensitive sites only, e.g. banks.
- quickthrower2 3y agoWhich leads us back to needing caching, which needs a signatory, and a list of trusted signatory, which gets us back to certificate authorities. Gotcha :-).
- stephenr 3y agoCaching is something DNS already has in-hand.
- quickthrower2 3y agoUsing a distributed MITM system! https://www.cloudflare.com/en-au/learning/dns/dns-cache-poisoning/ https://www.cloudflare.com/en-au/learning/dns/dns-cache-pois...
- stephenr 3y agoPerhaps you're unaware, but that problem can be largely mitigated by DNSSEC, which is why it's considered a requirement to make DANE practical.
- CMCDragonkai 3y agoWhat were the circumstances of the failures?