Gmail and SSL

Sun Dec 30 22:27:35 UTC 2012

While i will agree that the client being able to validate the certificate directly is the best place to be, I do not see any advantage of requiring purchased certificates over self-signed certificates.  IMO it provides no realistic security benefit at all.

Then again I don't award points for 
certificate verification having anything to do with identity verification of the remote party.

In other words, if I didn't sign it then the certificate posseses no more validity than an ephemeral self-signed certificate.

Of course, others are free to delude  themselves with additional "theatrics" and false assumtions if they want to do so.

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From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> 
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To: kmedcalf <kmedcalf at dessus.com> 
Cc: mysidia at gmail.com,nanog at nanog.org 
Subject: Re: Gmail and SSL 