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Re:Why Static Websites Need HTTPS by austincheney on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @03:22PM (#17862015)
Where is the key signed? It is signed at the web server providing the HTTPS response. It isn't signed by the CA. The CA provides a digital signature to the certificate to validate the certificate using cryptography (X.509 standard). Digital signature algorithms are very different from the encryption algorithms used in the PKI model.

Wikipedia also explains this limitation with regard to breaking DNS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority

Re:Why Static Websites Need HTTPS by xfer on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @02:42AM (#17866176)
What's your point? The CA certificate is used during signing part of the hash calculation.