Dňa 19. októbra 2025 10:57:53 UTC používateľ Alessandro Vesely via mailop 
<[email protected]> napísal:

>Hm...  certificates are real, reputation services are not:  When I enter my 
>server's IP into TrendMicro's "reputation service"[*] it says it doesn't 
>exist.  Yet, it has a Letsencrypt certificate.  Ditto for mailop's MX.

The only reliable certificate (for me) is my certificate (generated
or signed by me). Anything other is 3-th party with unknown/uncertain
value.

Even my own self signed certificate has low reliability, as anyone
can generate his own with exact the same content (except signature,
with a little of luck that nobody steal secret key). Publishing/using
its fingerprint to verify its content can inrease its value, but IMO it
is prone to mistakes. One can icrease usability by own CA, but that
is another topic.

Thus using certficate for anything other than to exchange/derive
the (ephemeral) encryption keys is IMO fake feel of security, especially
with SMTP (MTAs).

regards


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Slavko
https://www.slavino.sk/
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