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2018-09-03, 20:59
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If I May
"Chris Halsall"
Sep 2002
Barbados
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MersenneForum.org needs to get off its ass with regard to TLS...
Hey all.
I'm not quite sure why this happened, but I had to re-authenticate here at MersenneForum.org. Extremely weirdly, MF doesn't use TLS; it uses Plain Text. So I had to give credentials not encrypted (of course they were "throw-away"). Mike: I respect that you're not terribly strong with the nuances of cyber-security. But you're leaving people exposed because you don't ask for assistance. MF should be served over a secure channel. Not doing so is a profound embarrassment. Last fiddled with by chalsall on 2018-09-03 at 21:00 Reason: Something so subtle you wouldn't understand.... |
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2018-09-03, 21:36
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"The unspeakable one"
Jun 2006
My evil lair
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IIUC it would cost more each month to enable TLS support in the server.
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2018-09-03, 22:23
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If I May
"Chris Halsall"
Sep 2002
Barbados
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Mike takes donations to run the Mersenne Forum. It doesn't take that much to run a TLS site. Every other site associated with the GIMPS project is now running over a secure channel. Many expletives deleted! Last fiddled with by chalsall on 2018-09-03 at 22:29 Reason: s/an T/a T/; # if you don't edit in regex, you're not pedantic enough. |
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2018-09-03, 23:54
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If I May
"Chris Halsall"
Sep 2002
Barbados
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OK. Like it or hate it, anything web based not served over https connections which takes passwords is now considered untrustworthy.
Mike (our sysadmin): a sincere question: why are you resisting this? Is it because you don't know how, or because it costs money? Either way we (the communal we) can help. |
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2018-09-04, 03:39
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Posts 78 through this one were merged from another thread. The subject matter is the same.
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2018-09-04, 03:41
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I think that it might be the time to make the move to HTTPS. If we do it now, then if the wiki comes back it can be HTTPS as well. I will gladly add 2 Euros to my monthly dues.
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2018-09-04, 10:39
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"Victor de Hollander"
Aug 2011
the Netherlands
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2018-09-04, 13:58
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2018-09-04, 14:12
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"Mike"
Aug 2002
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The SSL certificate was free.
Setting everything up was a big gamble. Despite our best efforts to brick the forum, it all worked out in the end. https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.html 
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2018-09-04, 14:46
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"Luigi"
Aug 2002
Team Italia
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2018-09-04, 17:07
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"Victor de Hollander"
Aug 2011
the Netherlands
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Nice Job!
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