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Re: [Acme] High level comments on draft-barnes-acme (the GitHub version)

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Wed, 25 March 2015 17:56 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: John Mattsson <john.mattsson@ericsson.com>, "acme@ietf.org" <acme@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: High level comments on draft-barnes-acme (the GitHub version)
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Subject: Re: [Acme] High level comments on draft-barnes-acme (the GitHub version)
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> because I let Amazon, Microsoft, Google or any other cloud provider run my
> web server does not mean I give them the right to request certificates for my
> domain.

But you are already giving them complete control of your environment, if they decide to do something bad.  From a security viewpoint, if you're running on someone else's host, how can you prevent it?

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