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A pinned self cert is still more secure than this because you don’t have to trust any CAs. > The time for self-signed certificates has passed. This is bad bla
by kortilla 2y ago
A pinned self cert is still more secure than this because you don’t have to trust any CAs.
> The time for self-signed certificates has passed.
This is bad blanket advice and very much depends on use-case.
- Arnt 2y agoSoftware is a collective. A billion or so people get the same software. The time for self-signed certs has passed because supporting that in software for a billion people opens up some of that billion to attack. The few people who understand the niceties of certs can create a private CA, trust that, and use that CA to sign a regular cert. Doing that is nontrivial, but it doesn't put other people at risk.