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> Regardless, look at the vast majority of technical users relying on SSH without using a CA for secure communications, had browsers done a better job at self-s
by gsnedders 10y ago
> Regardless, look at the vast majority of technical users relying on SSH without using a CA for secure communications, had browsers done a better job at self-signed certs we could be doing the same on the web.
How many technical users actually check the fingerprint matches the expected one of the server, out-of-band? Almost everyone I know just accepts the unknown fingerprint, so almost nobody knows who the endpoint they're actually connected to is.
- emodendroket 10y agoIt works OK as long as you're connecting to the correct one the first time, I suppose. But yeah, I agree.
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