Peter Bowen writes:

> I’m honestly not a big fan of being limited to these three methods — they all 
> are methods which have be completed by someone with access to the “backend” 
> server but not necessarily the onion proxy.  What options might exist for 
> validation that are closer to the DNS validation method for Internet names?  
> How could a CA confirm that they onion name “owner” has approved the request?

You're right that none of these methods could be completed by someone
with access to the onion proxy alone.  I think the closest analogy would
indeed call for a new onion-specific method, which would probably
involve signing a challenge with the onion key or with a key signed by
the onion key.

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