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what if the hacker provided the public key for https connection?
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I urge everybody to read up on CAA records in DNS and add them to your domains. They basically say what CA the certs for that domain are supposed to come from. Even if another CA issues valid certs for the domain they would be rejected if they don't match the CAA în DNS. It takes 5 minutes.
You can specify the valid CA in the form of its representative domain, for example to allow Let's Encrypt you'd add
0 issue "letsencrypt.org"
. If you want to allow multiple CA you add multiple CAA records. They enter into effect if at least one CAA record is present. You can also restrict the challenge type, for example0 issue "letsencrypt.org;validationmethods=dns-01"
.Please note that this is worth adding a CAA record even if you don't use your domain for HTTP and you don't issue any certs for it, because a rogue CA can do it for you. You can add a blank CAA record (
0 issue ";"
) which basically forbids any CA.(And yes, this also applies to email. It's worth adding restrictive records even if you don't use your domain for email.)
They mean CAA records:
https://developers.cloudflare.com/ssl/edge-certificates/caa-records/
Right, I'll fix it.