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posted by NCommander on Tuesday April 01 2014, @08:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the that-was-a-bitch-to-get-working dept.
After a significant amount of wrestling with Slash, we've got SSL working properly. Slash normally tried to prevent people from using SSL unless they were an admin or subscriber. This, combined with some absolutely horrendous buggy code, and compounded by the fact we don't use mod_ssl, was not ideal. I'm pleased to announce that we've managed to exorcise the last of the demons in this code, so right now, you can go up to your URL bar, and fiddle it over to https://soylentnews.org, and it will work!

Right now, we're running with a proper SSL certificate, but secondary services are running with a wild-card CACert certificate, we'll migrate those to a conventional certificate authority once we've done the possible site rename to prevent us from having to buy multiple SSL certificates. I've had to gut the back-end pretty heavily to make this work, so please try it out, and let us know what you find. Once we're fairly certain we've exterminated all the bugs, we'll be taking a serious look at the possibility of going SSL by default.

Until then, enjoy your now-encrypted BaconNews!
 
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Angry Jesus on Tuesday April 01 2014, @08:09PM

    by Angry Jesus (182) on Tuesday April 01 2014, @08:09PM (#24444)

    Most websites that do SSL, do it poorly with low grade ciphers.

    My firefox says you guys are using TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 with Perfect Forward Secrecy which is top notch all around. Congratulations.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 01 2014, @10:25PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday April 01 2014, @10:25PM (#24504) Homepage Journal
    Yep, scores 100% by Calomel's scoring.
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  • (Score: 2) by NCommander on Wednesday April 02 2014, @02:50AM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Wednesday April 02 2014, @02:50AM (#24581) Homepage Journal

    Once we're incorporated, I intend to get EV certs for the site vs. just DV.

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