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Comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7

"... and the whole system doesn't even work because certificates are issued over plaintext connections, and trusted certificate aurthorities[sic] use very secure keys like "4""

And the CA certificate is "self-signed"

Meanwhile under this "Web PKI" the www user is by default discouraged and/or blocked from using self-signed certificates she herself creates

Someone else decides who she must trust. It's not optional

For example, for a number of years someone else told her she must trust eMudhra

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