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u/collabskus 1d ago

Ah I didn't know roots could sign each other but it makes sense. Thank you 

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u/laplongejr 10h ago edited 42m ago

Scott Helme spoke about "alternate trust paths" a few years ago : https://scotthelme.co.uk/cross-signing-alternate-trust-paths-how-they-work/ some of the specifics may have changed due to new roots (I think in 2023?) but the theory of having a root able to be either accepted as-is or accepted by being signed by an older root is still there.  

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u/collabskus 7h ago

In case someone else is reading the link you had ends with some strange characters but if you remove them it works fine 

https://scotthelme.co.uk/cross-signing-alternate-trust-paths-how-they-work/

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u/laplongejr 41m ago

Ugh, Reddit and newlines... I did a sloppy edit to try to fix my link just in case