# Using BGP to Acquire Bogus TLS Certificates

**URL:** <https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/using-bgp-to-acquire-bogus-tls-certificates/38627>\
**Category:** Issuance Tech\
**Created:** [July 21, 2017, 8:59pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/using-bgp-to-acquire-bogus-tls-certificates/38627 "2017-07-21T20:59:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/using-bgp-to-acquire-bogus-tls-certificates/38627/10 "2017-08-25T18:03:04Z")

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> [@jsha](#):
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> They were kind enough to show us an early draft of their paper, which kicked us into higher gear on implementing the multi-viewpoint validation feature we had been intending to write for a long time. There's some code landed in Boulder, and we're working on the operation deployment part of things.

As an update, [we just announced](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/validating-challenges-from-multiple-network-vantage-points/40955) the deployment of this feature to the staging environment.

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