Anaconda Prompt is having an issue with SSL certificates

I wanted to create a virtual environment in conda prompt:

conda create --name name_of_venv

I am getting error:

Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json): done Solving environment: done

CondaSSLError: Encountered an SSL error. Most likely a certificate verification issue.

Exception: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘repo.anaconda.com’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /pkgs/main/win-64/current_repodata.json (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, ‘[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:1129)’)))

The same error I get with anaconda navigator too.

I’m getting the same error for a fresh Anaconda 2023.03-1 install on Windows x86_64.
I’ve tried copying the openssl and crypto dlls from Library/bin to DLLs with no success.

conda search conda

yields

CondaSSLError: Encountered an SSL error. Most likely a certificate verification issue.

Exception: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='repo.anaconda.com', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /pkgs/main/win-64/current_repodata.json (Caused by SSLError(SSLCertVerificationError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.c:997)')))
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