self-signed
Security and privacy
certificate generation
SHOW HN2014
13points
2comments
#1,546of 2,272 in 2014
Top 69%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
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What HN said
Objections
Trusting a private key generated by a random website is unsafe
From 1 comment
I suppose I should be the first to point out that trusting a private key from a random website is not something that you should ever do. Seems fine upon inspecting the source,…
mfkp on HN
Requests
Pull request to address the private key trust concern in the open source repo
From 1 comment
This is absolutely right. Considering that this is an OpenSource project, I think it would be great idea to send a Pull Request for fixing this:…
indutny on HN
Alternatives named
Command-line instructions for generating self-signed certificates (Heroku guide)
From 1 comment
I suppose I should be the first to point out that trusting a private key from a random website is not something that you should ever do. Seems fine upon inspecting the source,…
mfkp on HN