On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Tobias Oberstein wrote: > > There are situations when self-signed certs are quite common like on > private networks or where self-signed certs might be "necessary", like > with a software appliance that auto-creates a self-signed cert on first > boot (and the user is too lazy / does not have own CA).
A self-signed cert essentially provides you with no security. You might as well be not bothering with encryption. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
