Re: Massive change in Public Cert behaviour coming soon

[Eliot Lear via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On 23.05.2025 17:08, John R. Levine wrote:
> Federated private CAs implement business relationships among the 
> organizatiosns.  Some random person saying "hi, I am foo.bar.com" 
> provides what?  I don't get it. 

You get the same thing you get from a domain name plus possibly one 
additional piece of information: signer information It would seem to me 
that having some external attestation about the SMTP server would 
eliminate some amount of SMTP via BGP hijacking, but as this isn't my 
day job, I'm not going to make any strong claims.

Eliot

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