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		yreg 1 day ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US san... Everything is a number.
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fluoridation 15 hours ago [–]

You can represent arbitrary data as a string of numbers, but a certificate is quite literally a number. It's a secret solution to a mathematical equation.

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