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