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My weekend project - AES encryption for Gmail or a...
The "other" reason to avoid a self signed cert is that a self signed cert still leaves your users open to a MITM attack. If your goal is to avoid a MITM, a self signed cert gives you nothing but more configuration lines in your webserver config.
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