Reply to post: Re: Why is self-signed such a bad idea ?

US Senator Ron Wyden to Pentagon: Encrypt your websites

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Re: Why is self-signed such a bad idea ?

"While your utopian idea is all well and good, the problem is that the largest PKI trust chain out there - which includes the most common Web browsers - doesn't recognise the DoD as a trusted root CA. So, you know, might want to fix that first - provided they can satisfy the other members that they're trustworthy."

Of course, no one in the DoD would ever find a reason to impersonate someone else's server....

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um, moving on...

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