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Reader Dean F. Reed on 2025-12-12 at 14:03:

I'm wondering if these problems are solvable with better policy?

- Shouldn't we require certificate authorities to disclose their software stack and vendors? I assume there are public indicators that would allow this to be figured out anyway, so why hide it?

- Could root stores set limits on shared software stacks? It feels like the web pki is walking into a monoculture risk where one bug breaks everything.

- At what point do we just remove CAs that have a history of incompetence - regardless of the security impact of those failures?

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