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> so that the certs you're using aren't in fact self-signed but signed by a private CA?

I find that most people confuse or combine "self-signed" with "signed by a private CA". For a lot of uses, the configuration pains are the same to the user: "I have to load this cert into the CA root trust store". They don't realize how much better a private CA really is.

And of course, PKI would be so much more useful with "name constraints" so you don't have to trust a private CA for all domains just the one domain you care about.




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