Nicholas Sherlock wrote:
An attacker can use precisely the same mechanism to serve their own certificate. Your website will have carefully trained the user in advance to ignore all security warnings and accept the rogue certificate. What a waste of time. The only thing you're protecting against is a passive attacker.
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