Once upon a time, Richard Hughes <[email protected]> said:
> On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 at 16:27, Leon Fauster via devel
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > whats the benefit of this "self-signed TLS certificate" (as it does
> > not provide any "security")? Is this stub for something later ... ?
> 
> It's a good question. It provides encryption (so client A can provide
> the file to client B without client C being aware what's being sent)

Without identification though, it doesn't do that, because there's no
way for client B to know it is really talking to client A - it could be
talking to client C with a man-in-the-middle attack and a different
self-signed cert pretending to be client A.

-- 
Chris Adams <[email protected]>
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