▲ | akerl_ 2 days ago | |||||||
When a rogue CA issues a bad cert, they get delisted from all major browsers and are effectively destroyed. That isn’t possible with .com | ||||||||
▲ | teddyh a day ago | parent [-] | |||||||
The DNS is federated and hierarchical. A domain name (including top-level domains) is controlled by a single entity. If you do not trust that entity, you cannot trust that domain or top-level domain, or anything beneath that in the tree. But given that you trust the root zone, you can still (potentially) trust other subtrees in the DNS, like other top-level domains. This is not the case with a CA, however; you are forced to trust all of them, and hope that when fradulent certificates are issued (as has happened several times, IIUC), that they will not affect you. | ||||||||
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