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This is actually a great idea. Is there an opensource implementation of it?
Well, you can just generate your own SSL certificate on your machine, locally. I believe you can probably do it with OpenSSL. I've only done it with my Monero node, and they offer a binary, which will generate a certificate for you. I would just look up how to create a self-signed SSL certificate. My guess is it's just a few commands in the terminal.
No, I meant the logic where the browser would prompt the user to review and verify the cert for a particular website without consulting a CA. I run some self-signed certs already but I'd love to implement this in my homelab.
Oh, that was an idea for a way to do it. Not anything that's been implemented, or at least not to my knowledge.