User: alien51

Info not in hands of CA

On: When Is a Self-Signed SSL Certificate Acceptable?

and because their site exists for the distribution of copyrighted material the staff do not want to have their personal information in the hands of a CA CA has no access to the resources secured. You only give them your public key, which they sign to create the public key cert. Your private key stays private.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_signing_request/