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Re: [TLS] Trusting self-signed TLS certificates - specifically for HTTPS

Bas Westerbaan <bas@cloudflare.com> Thu, 01 December 2022 12:33 UTC

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From: Bas Westerbaan <bas@cloudflare.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:33:27 +0100
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Trusting self-signed TLS certificates - specifically for HTTPS
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> I don't see this as different to the current spam potential with CT logs
> right now - anyone could distribute out the creation of a bunch certificate
> requests with the likes of Let's Encrypt and submit a bunch of certificate
> chains to CT logs.


Let's Encrypt (and other free CAs) have tight rate limits [1], which would
be unreasonably tight for all applications. There is an escape hatch: if
the rate limit is a problem, you can just buy a certificate with some other
CA.

Best,

 Bas


[1] https://letsencrypt.org/docs/rate-limits/

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