Trust model for addresses and certificates (DANE etc..)

Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net
Fri May 29 15:08:04 BST 2020


southerntofu at thunix.net writes:

> Using DANE to distribute certificates reduces the attack surface, because the
> DNS is already a SPOF for a gemini server. I personally believe the gemini spec
> should strongly encourage admins to use DANE to distribute their server
> certificates.

Could you provide a minimal sample implementation of how a client would
implement this? Just to demonstrate feasibility and to provide a guide
to other client authors?

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