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by sarciszewski 3875 days ago
> Instead, the X.509 cert. stored in DNS is trusted for TLS purposes simply because it is DNSSEC signed rather than CA issued.

And I would see that as a huge mistake. Requiring two layers of verification (DNSSEC + separate CA) is what had I assumed DNSSEC would do.

Would that stop the NSA? Probably not, but the person who broke DigiNotar wasn't exactly NSA.