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Re:CA Comodo used broken OCR and issued certificates to the ... by nsgi on Friday October 21, 2016 @01:37PM (#12762635)
Self signed certificates are always less valuable than purchased ones. The worst case CA breach is equivalent to the normal case of self-signed certificates: a certificate is misissued and an attacker can carry out an active MITM attack. A CA breach cannot enable passive attacks because they don't know the private keys of certificates used by websites.

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