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You could use some website which you connect to securely (CA signed) which fetches and displays fingerprint C. You can then compare it to A and B and the one which matches C is the "true" one.

Of course the whole thing can be automated by the browser and happen behind the scene - i.e. Firefox connecting to a Mozilla service for each self signed website it sees and comparing the fingerprints. Then it can store information about this self-signed certificate as trusted.



That sounds essentially the same as how Let's Encrypt works: https://letsencrypt.org/howitworks/technology/

Except that rather than creating a self-signed certificate and then asking an external service to store a fingerprint, you just let the external service sign your certificate.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and signing the certificate up-front has the nice benefit of not forcing browsers to leak private information (namely, the domain names that are being accessed) to a centralized third party.




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