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On 12/10/17 12:45, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> No, they don't. You get into MITM and then you have a choice: ignore and run your connection anyway
> or have no connectivity at all (using this channel). Both are bad, so don't use such a channel from the beginning.


No, MITM of https with the private CA isn't possible. Please provide 
references if you believe that the opposite is true.


Yuri