Comment Re:Google should then provide signed certs (Score 3, Interesting) 299
No, it's perfectly reasonable to run your own CA, as an individual or an organization, distribute your CA cert to those using the service, and go merrily on your encrypted and authenticated way.
For $30 per year to get a real cert (or even less, a little googling will quickly product things like 80% off at GoDaddy etc), your time has to be of quite a low value if it's easier/cheaper to run your own CA and distribute certificates (unless, of course, you're doing it all for the fun of it)
Where self-signed certs are no good is when you need to access your SSL protected service from someone else's machine, or a machine you've not used to access the service from before, and you have to take it on blind faith (or remember a long and complicated fingerprint) that the cert you're getting is the correct one.