- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:18:54 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Tobias Oberstein <tobias.oberstein@tavendo.de>
- cc: Simon Pieters <simonp@opera.com>, "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Tobias Oberstein wrote: > > There are situations when self-signed certs are quite common like on > private networks or where self-signed certs might be "necessary", like > with a software appliance that auto-creates a self-signed cert on first > boot (and the user is too lazy / does not have own CA). A self-signed cert essentially provides you with no security. You might as well be not bothering with encryption. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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