On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:04 AM, Philip Gladstone <pglad...@cisco.com> wrote:

[ snip questions about revocation — I'm trying to think about and
clarify that stuff next ]

> Does this proposal also support self-signed certificates? I.e. if you
> connect to a site, accept the self-signed certificate, can that site then
> pin itself using that self-signed cert? I.e. can the validation of the cert
> chain stop as soon as there is a pin match?

This specification is agnostic on that issue. If your client lets you
accept self-signed certificates, then there's no reason it can't also
note it as a Known Pinned HSTS Host pinned to your self--signed public
key.
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