Cloudflare

[davout]

What's not to like?

The fact that my cert sits AES encrypted on my production servers, in clear in its RAM and nowhere else.
In the security/convenience trade-off I'd rather get DDoS'd from time to time than to get MITM'd permanently.

EDIT : Assuming of course that the service doesn't work simply by looking at the encrypted traffic flow, in which case you can obviously disregard the previous comment :-)

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[turtle83]

I see the forum uses HSTS

Code:

Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=3000000

If im not mistaken, there are some certificate pinning features available which tells the (modern) browsers to trust only the current certificate(or public key) for a predefined time... If thats implemented, trying to pull off a similar MiTM would probably result in some sort of warning... Not sure the status of this extension..

[TiagoTiago]

Just gotta make sure you remember to renew the certificate in time though; false positives can be almost just as bad as failing to notice an attack.

[Roy Badami]

The Certificate Patrol plug-in for Firefox looks interesting - it's supposed to tell you whenever a site's cert changes. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/certificate-patrol/

I've only just installed it, so I'm not sure how well it works in practice - but judging by the screenshots it looks like it saves the cert of every site you visit (not just a fingerprint) so that on detecting a changed certificate you can actually view both the old and new certs.

Of course, it's not that useful because in reality you often don't have enough information to determine if it's a legitimate change or not.

roy

[MPOE-PR]

The CA infrastructure stinks and is proven compromised and alternatives should be invented but PKI is a decades old problem and has never been satisfactorily solved anywhere.

I can't readily grasp the confusion of ideas and general brokenness of a brain that farts this proposition, to implement something known to be dysfunctional. Let's prolong the life of a broken piece of crap that should never have existed in the first place and in any event should have died long ago. Let's continuate as much of the stupidity of the old world as humanly possible.

Roughly equivalent, let's put three ounces of dog shit inside the car's tire, because there's no clear mechanism through which food would be contaminated by this, and therefore why not. So there you have the power rangers, on their hands and knees in a parking lot somewhere, huddled around this old rusty clunker of a car missing one door, stuffing dog shit through the air intake.

If this is the sort of ideas you'd entertain it's at least understandable why you wouldn't see what the problem is with them.

[tvbcof]

watching.  (sorry.)

[BitcoinFX]

I've only just installed it, so I'm not sure how well it works in practice - but judging by the screenshots it looks like it saves the cert of every site you visit (not just a fingerprint) so that on detecting a changed certificate you can actually view both the old and new certs.

It works very well. It's one of the few ways to make HTTPS suck less.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDmj_xe7EIQ

http://convergence.io/

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I'd go with customizing ModSecurity: http://www.modsecurity.org/ if you have the 'money' and the time.

I use CloudFlare on my USA proxy websites, but I don't use it for SSL and choose to keep the https on a sub-domain.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudFlare

"On February 13, 2013, a comparative penetration testing analysis report was published by Zero Science Lab, showing that ModSecurity is more effective than CloudFlare and Incapsula. In fact, out of the three, CloudFlare was the least effective."

[gmaxwell]

Extended validation costs more, but it's worth much more.

My understanding is that they're not easy to get if you're not a typical institution. It might not be possible for the forum to get one.

[davout]

My understanding is that they're not easy to get if you're not a typical institution. It might not be possible for the forum to get one.

Any kind of shell company will be just fine.

[TiagoTiago]

watching.  (sorry.)

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[phelix]

The CA system sucks in general.

It would be nice if you could add bitcointalk.bit as an external domain so that it can be used as a backup. Of course I would be happy to send you the name.

Also I added the forum fingerprint so Namecoin TLS should work with the Namecoin TLS firefox plugin - authorized, encrypted, decentralized. 

[wtogami]

I jokingly suggested that theymos sell personal openvpn certs for paranoid users to access BitcoinTalk without any reliance on SSL.  He's considering it.

[tvbcof]

watching.  (sorry.)

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Off-topic for this thread, but on-topic for this board:

I want it on my 'new replies to your posts' list.  I don't want it on my 'watchlist', and I certainly don't want to get spammed via e-mail.  It would be nice if there were a toggle such that the flag could be added without making a post...and especially subtracted if one had made a post.