1 Jan
2012
1 Jan
'12
7:26 p.m.
Self signed certs throw up some really scary looking warnings[0] and will scare off most non-technical users. Not worth the $10 / year or whatever. R C [0] They've been getting progressively worse in the past few years, at least in firefox. On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Lee Passey <lee@novomail.net> wrote:
Why not use a self-signed certificate? Self-signed certificates provide no assurance that the data in the certificate (including the public key) is accurate, but they are still completely adequate to ensure confidentiality, and it seems to me that confidentiality is the goal PG would be trying to achieve.