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		googlryas on Aug 26, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Your online identity is owned by your email provid... Perhaps it would be easier to just own an IP address?

867-5309 on Aug 26, 2022 [–]

the certificates needed to secure email require a domain name

account42 on Aug 29, 2022 | [–]

There is no technical reason that certificates can't sign IP addresses - that is pure policy because IPs currently don't really represent an identity.

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