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by vxxzy 4576 days ago
This is just a self-signed cert.
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untog 4576 days ago
Before everyone gets hysterical, please vote ^^^ that comment up. It's a self-signed cert, it is not used in production:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6875023

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bradleybuda 4576 days ago
Yep. Though it opens up a (probably hypothetical) potential attack if this cert is widely trusted on, say, Guardian employees' development machines.
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sgtpepper 4576 days ago
They updated it with this comment

> this is a TEST key for local development - NOT an important key

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