On Thu, 2020-06-04 at 08:25 -0400, Chapman Flack wrote: > > I feel bad about bending the basic idea of certificates and trust to suit > > some misbegotten bureaucratic constraints on good security. > > Can you elaborate on what, in the email message you replied to here, > represented a bending of the basic idea of certificates and trust? > > I didn't notice any.
I was referring to the wish to *not* use a self-signed CA certificate, but an intermediate certificate as the ultimate authority, based on a distrust of the certification authority that your organization says you should trust. Yours, Laurenz Albe