>There is no such thing as a "self-signed" CA cert, (its one or the other). Not sure what you're trying to say here. What a cert is signed by and what a cert's

>There is no such thing as a "self-signed" CA cert, (its one or the other). Not sure what you're trying to say here. What a cert is signed by and what a cert's usage is set to are orthogonal things. There are CA certs that are self-signed (look in your OS's trusted roots cert store) and there are CA certs that are signed by other CA certs (intermediate CA certs).