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A TLS certificate signed with its own key rather than by a recognized authority, so nothing independent vouches for the hostname it claims. Clients reject it by default and report a certificate error. Small or private servers sometimes use one, and accepting it means trusting a key on first sight, which leaves the session open to anyone able to substitute a different certificate.
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