> On 14 Dec 2015, at 18:44, Ilari Liusvaara <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 06:25:56PM +0100, Julian Dropmann wrote:
>> 
>> If there for example where a standard to make changes to you DNS
>> zone/nameserver, this would be a much better approach to verify domain
>> ownership automatically, so why not provide an automation for that first?
>> But of course I also see the practical approach here...
> 
> Like DNS UPDATE? Standardized in 1997...
> 
> IIRC, there have been patches to the reference ACME client (I don't
> think those have gotten merged) that implement the client side of
> DNS UPDATE.
> 
> It actually depends on usecase which of DNS or HTTP is more convinient.
> 
> 
> -Ilari

If this standard exists, why do we not solely rely on that instead of 
introducing weaker mechanisms?

You already answered it: Because its more convenient.
You do not rely on name server providers to support that.

By providing those other methods, there is now even less incentive to 
implement/using it.

And by only having a single CA accepting the HTTP method you already have no 
security benefit anyway using it.


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