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by tamrix 1379 days ago
There's a Web3 project called Dane. Which seeks to add CAs to the blockchain. I suppose if successful, you wouldn't need to trust a company but instead a blockchain. But with all the web3 hate these days, it probably won't see the light of day.
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That's funny because we already have DANE [0] for DNS-based certificates and that's precisely the right place for domain-validated certs. No blockchain needed.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...