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by jk700 2078 days ago
But if an attacker can intercept domain validation to issue a certificate, there is little reason not to protect his own certificate from revocation by preventing subsequent validations until it is used on a target, if he can't hide this fact in some way of course. A report of that will look like someone is trying to revoke a certificate for a domain they don't control and won't actually solve the problem even if a human can be convinced by other method that you do control the domain.

Maybe DNSSEC could be used here to help if ACME added a way to force DNSSEC-only domain validation.