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by tptacek 5801 days ago
Nobody is really verifying the fingerprint of the server's certificate, but if you are, fine; you and I are talking about two different issues. You're talking about your own homebrew setup that uses the SSL protocol and manual certificate verification (incidentally, just set up your own CA and forget about the fingerprints; it's not hard). I'm talking about Internet-scale secure web connections to banks.