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Trust chains. Some implementations would accept an LE certificate for foo.com as a valid login for foo.com or something like that, because they treated all trusted certs the same, whether issued by the service being authenticated to, or some other CA.

It might be possible to relay communications between two servers and have one of them act as a client without knowing. Handshake verification prevents that in TLS, but there could be similar attacks.



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