• JWBananas@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      Are you conflating self-signed and untrusted?

      Self-signed is fine if you have a trusted root deployed across your environment.

      • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        Correct. If using actual pki with a trusted root and private CA, you’re just fine.

        I took the statement to mean ad-hoc self-signed certs, signed by the server that they are deployed on. That works for EiT but defeats any MitM protection, etc.