Full Disclosure: Re: FD / lists.grok.org - bad SSL cert

[Tim <tim-security () sentinelchicken org>]

> SSL certs cost money. This one works the same. etc..
Uh, no, actually CAs provide some weak assurance that the certificate is
the real one and associated with that server.  A self-signed one
provides none.  If you can't, in some way, authenticate the certificate
then SSL is not any better than sending data plain text.  It's not that
I approve of the current SSL PKI regime, but it's still better than
none.

tim

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