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The current CAB Forum Baseline Requirements call for "Multi-Perspective Issuance Corroboration" [1] i.e. make sure the DNS or HTTP challenge looks the same from several different data centres in different countries. By the end of 2026, CAs will validate from 5 different data centres.

This should make getting a cert via BGP hijack very difficult.

[1] https://github.com/cabforum/servercert/blob/main/docs/BR.md#...



See my post above about BGP hijacks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41511582 - They're way easier than you think.


It is hypothesised to make this more difficult but it's unclear how effective it is in practice. I wouldn't expect it to make a significant difference. We've been here before.




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