Re: [ietf-smtp] [OT] (signed TLDs)

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Wed, 16 October 2019 02:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-smtp] [OT] (signed TLDs)
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In article <0ab60cd9-759a-572a-622f-41c841e69350@network-heretics.com> you write:
>On 10/15/19 9:36 PM, Hector Santos wrote:
>
>> The technical security aspect of encryption is no longer good enough 
>> -- certs now have to be CA-signed now.
>
>Certs that weren't signed by a trusted party were never worth anything 
>anyway, unless maybe you manually pinned them.

We were talking about bootstrapping DNSSEC.  Certs?  What are those?