Re: Case distinctions as theoretical exercise

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 15 March 2016 16:41 UTC

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>The only way you could do that sort of thing with DNS records is if
>you were doing something like S/MIME and you had a LRA for the domain
>with its own root or intermediate cert and published an authenticator
>for that in the DNS. then you could put a link to your directory where
>account granular lookup can be performed in the DNS next to it.

Ah, you mean like  draft-bhjl-x509-srv-00

R's,
John