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'All at once' is being DDOS'd so you wouldn't want that.

In general, you are going to be MITM'd near your endpoint (ISP level DNS tricks, or on your WiFi) or near the destination endpoint, very rarely somewhere in the core (although that has happened with some BGP hacking). To prevent the client being mitmd you can ask something else on the internet what their cert resolution chain was.

If the server can be mitmd with a valid cert the only solution is for all clients to contribute to a distributed consensus -- appending the cert chain they see to a distributed log.

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