I guess you haven't read any of the other discussions on this topic. If you don't have the identity verification, the encryption is worthless. If my grandma wen

I guess you haven't read any of the other discussions on this topic. If you don't have the identity verification, the encryption is worthless. If my grandma went to a site with a self-signed certificate - you're damn right I'd want an error message stopping her, as there's no guarantee she isn't giving away the last of her pension money to a scammer somewhere. To use your ticket analogy: a self-signed certificate would be a ticket in coach. You have no idea what plane you're getting on, or where the plane is going. I wouldn't put my grandma on a plane where I didn't know she was going. You would? :)