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[–] 16 points 1 year ago

This just seems like Cloudflare testing something that the CAs will eventually be running themselves, as opposed to them trying to supplant the CAs or something.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Better off not using Cloudflare if you give a shit about the internet.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why is Cloudflare bad for the internet?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    You want a monopoly on all web traffic, that can be controlled by totalitarian governments and used to censor minorities and LGBTQ+ individuals?

    Cause putting everything behind Cloudflare is gonna do that. Just look at the Amazon outage the other day or the M$ hosting crash today.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Cloudflare can’t be forced to censor anything because CDNs are not actually needed by the internet, they’re just nice to have. The only place where they could actually do anything is in the registrar business, where any foul play would just result in de-accreditation by ICANN.

    AWS, Azure, and Oracle do have too much power over the internet, but that’s a different scenario.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Shove it up your ass, Cloudflare.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    No offense but CAs still don't support ed25519, a now 20 year old ECDSA standard that everyone uses basically everywhere else, including FIPS.

    Although tbf I'm sure the NSA could yolo PKI in an "emergency" situation anyway by compromising a CA, though I don't think that would happen unless its literally WWIII.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Instead of just centralizing everything with Google, let's ALSO centralize all of that through Cloudflare too. If we centralize enough stuff onto enough different monolithic platforms it counts as decentralized, right? /s

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Is this for quantum resistance? The certificates would be pretty large and they don't give a key agreement scheme, just signatures. They are clever but to deploy them on internet scale would take a lot of software changes in everything.

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