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On 10/29/2012 03:33 PM, From Gervase Markham:
<blockquote cite="mid:508E8591.1050104@mozilla.org" type="cite">
This is begging the question of whether you need to know the
'owner' in this sense in the first place. Or, to put it another
way: why is this argument not an argument against all DV certs?</blockquote>
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It could be one - except that the risk is clearly lower (one domain
and its subs, versus a bunch of unrelated host names nobody knows
how they even should be related to each other) if handled correctly.<br>
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Current UIs clearly show the domain name (common name?) prominently.
Wouldn't I be working in the PKI business, I probably wouldn't have
a clue how to relate to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.playpal.com">www.playpal.com</a> when seeing mozilla.org in
the UI.<br>
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DVs are incredible useful for low-risk sites such as blogs, forums,
webmin, private mail/webmail, remote access etc. They usually don't
need either wild cards nor multiple different domain names. That's
where DV comes in nicely as a quick-and-dirty solution. I believe
it's neither useful for e-commerce nor for any other higher risk
application - wild cards due to their nature of being valid for any
sub domain (including <i>paypal</i>.src.com) and multiple different
domains included.<br>
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