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by tinus_hn 2342 days ago
It would be nice if the standard allowed host names as SSIDs so you could have certificates for them. But it doesn’t.
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How would you make that work? How do you prove to the certification authority that you are the rightful owner of a certain SSID? What if a place somewhere else wants to use the same SSID? Who's supposed to decide (and based on what criteria?) who's the "rightful" owner of a particular SSID?
If the SSID is a hostname that’s easy, like it already is for secure websites.