Reply to post: And still not handling self-signed certificates well

Secure web? That'll cost you, thanks to Mozilla's HTTPS plan

Christian Berger

And still not handling self-signed certificates well

I mean if you have certificate pinning, self-signed certificates are about as secure as official ones. Sure if an attacker can spoof the connection every time you have a problem, but then you don't get the problem of false certificates issued by rogue CAs.

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