Re:Launching in 2015: A Certificate Authority to Encrypt the...
by jules on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @05:01AM
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How would a browser know that the fact that www.mybank.com doesn't use SSL at all is intended by the bank, or the result of a MITM attack? At the end of the day it all relies on the user seeing the (lack of) a padlock in his browser. So as long as you don't show a padlock (or a different kind of padlock) for www.mybank.com when the certificate is self signed, you're good.
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