Re: Secure Perlmonks

Hi Mirage,

Getting a SSL certificate costs money, this site is generously donated by several people & companies. If you're that paranoid please go to the donations page and contribute.

Its not like this site is storing credit card numbers or anything?

No offence meant - peace.
/me ~ barrd

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Re: Re: Secure Perlmonks by allolex (Curate) on Jul 09, 2003 at 13:57 UTC
It is possible to create your own Certificate Authority and self-sign your own SSL certficates. It doesn't cost anything. :) -- Allolex	[reply]
Re^3: Secure Perlmonks by ehdonhon (Curate) on Jul 09, 2003 at 22:15 UTC
Yes, you can self-sign your own certificates and that will do well enough for encryption, but most browsers will not accept it for authentication. That means users will get confusing errors popping up every time the go to log on until they configure their browser to trust the certificate. That kind of stuff scares away users.	[reply]
Re: Re^3: Secure Perlmonks by allolex (Curate) on Jul 10, 2003 at 01:13 UTC
Agreed, but we're talking about Perl Monks, right? :) In this hypothetical case (I don't really think encryption is a good idea), we do have some means of instructing people how to install the certificate. -- Allolex	[reply]
Re: Re^3: Secure Perlmonks by hatter (Pilgrim) on Jul 18, 2003 at 10:09 UTC
It doesn't have to be mandatory, there could be an extra link 'Log in via SSL' and mention on that page that the cert is self-signed and thus may cause browsers to whinge. `the hatter`	[reply] [d/l]