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At some point it makes sense to just let us use self signed certs. Nobody believes SSL is providing attestation anyways.
by jdsully 8mo ago
At some point it makes sense to just let us use self signed certs. Nobody believes SSL is providing attestation anyways.
- vimda 8mo agoA lot corporate environments load their root cert and MITM you anyway
- sgjohnson 8mo agoA lot of applications implement cert pinning for this exact reason
- woodruffw 8mo agoWhat does attestation mean in this context? The point of the Web PKI is to provide consistent cryptographic identity for online resources, not necessarily trustworthy ones. (The classic problem with self-signed certs being that TOFU doesn’t scale to millions of users, particularly ones who don’t know what a certificate fingerprint is or what it means when it changes.)
- cpach 8mo agoThen you might as well get rid of TLS altogether.