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		the456gamer 22 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they aff... If you are trusting a user since they are the same one that originally contacted you, you don't. It's tofu

lmz 22 days ago [–]

I can't believe this was downvoted. Seriously a Certificate is binding a public key and the attributes (mainly the identity). If you don't need to use the attributes, you don't need a certificate!

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