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Comment by staycoolboy

I'm a little confused, can you help me understand something?

Assume you created a self-signed personal certificate and you use that to sign your emails.

What if I make a self-signed cert claiming to be you, and create an email address [email protected].

How would someone know which one to trust if there wasn't a third party to verify youre the real nmelo? Websites do this with trusted CA roots on their browsers.

Going back further, business do it with services like Dun & Bradstreet.

But personal?

What am I missing?

parent staycoolboy 6 years ago

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