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[โ€“] JWBananas@startrek.website 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you conflating self-signed and untrusted?

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

[โ€“] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years 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.