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The article has a long list of reasons for certificates. Here's another reason: >4. It also opens up new opportunities such as payment processing, "as current
by Thorrez 1y ago
The article has a long list of reasons for certificates. Here's another reason:
>4. It also opens up new opportunities such as payment processing, "as current PCI DSS requirements do not allow non-standard TLS"2 and may only work with certificates having some sort of validation3. Payments card networks require HTTPS for a payment to be taken. So if someone wants to do that over an onion site they would need a TLS certificate.