HTTPS (Secure HTTP)

eagle · 09-06-2008, 01:20 PM

It is certainly up to each, what they want to do.

I personally prefer my data encrypted again, it will make it that much more difficult for hackers. For instance, they can know where keywords originate from, whereas, only the mods/admins know this now. You know that eagle is from IP x.x.x.x. If my posts go over the internet, through routers, all that can be determined by the machines in place to monitor. In other words, ssl provides point to point encryption. No one can see the data in flight without some very sophisticated machines.

I do not get any security warnings from firefox and I believe that is easily fixed.

It is good to know the passwords are encrypted by default.

Again, https is for the extremely paranoid or anonymous posters who wish to remain that way.

The performance hit on the client or the server is not that bad really. This server is fast in ssl mode.

09-06-2008, 01:20 PM	#3
eagle Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 75	Re: HTTPS (Secure HTTP) It is certainly up to each, what they want to do. I personally prefer my data encrypted again, it will make it that much more difficult for hackers. For instance, they can know where keywords originate from, whereas, only the mods/admins know this now. You know that eagle is from IP x.x.x.x. If my posts go over the internet, through routers, all that can be determined by the machines in place to monitor. In other words, ssl provides point to point encryption. No one can see the data in flight without some very sophisticated machines. I do not get any security warnings from firefox and I believe that is easily fixed. It is good to know the passwords are encrypted by default. Again, https is for the extremely paranoid or anonymous posters who wish to remain that way. The performance hit on the client or the server is not that bad really. This server is fast in ssl mode.