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He has to have the private key that matches the certificate he's presenting.

He's presenting the CloudFlare-obtained cert (which the site offers up on request), so the lack of a warning means he's got that private key.

Getting another CA-signed certificate, naming 'www.cloudflarechallenge.com' and matching another private key, would itself be an impressive compromise, though not the challenge CloudFlare made or what he's demonstrating.



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