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by mobiplayer 4444 days ago
I've wondered many times why OCSP isn't distributed as DNS is. When we talk about websites, surely there's no more than one certificate per hostname (or less, i.e. wildcards). I don't think we're talking here of something impossible to do or not feasible with our current technology and computing power.

Also, certificate "whitelisting" could be a part of the DNS protocol itself (return the IP address of the requested hostname and the hash of its current, valid certificate).

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Just to clarify: OCSP is distributed, but I can't ask my local ISP OCSP server about your certificates. I have to ask your OCSP server about your certificates.