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by aaomidi 1932 days ago
Not necessarily true https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_Certification_Authority_Au...
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From the RFC: Relying Parties MUST NOT use CAA records as part of certificate validation.

A normal user is in roughly the same situation with and without CAA; is a particular certificate trustworthy? Only trusted root CAs and CRLs can answer the question. CAA is only cryptographically secure with DNSSEC, and transparency reports give at least as much auditability.