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Comment by sreevisakh

Client certs as implemented on Gemini and IRC are self-signed. They are enrolled on the service after they're created. They don't need enterprise level capabilities. In fact, even the creation of these certificates are automated on many clients (eg: Lagrange Gemini browser, soju IRC bouncer). You don't even think of them as certificates. They're considered as identities.

And regarding the privacy. You can deploy as many certificates/identities as you want on multiple accounts and sites. It's not possible to track them across sites or even across accounts, since there is no CA involved.

parent sreevisakh 4 years ago

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