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May 07, 2011, 10:17:20 AM
Last edit: May 07, 2011, 10:43:20 AM by witchspace
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As this site does revolve a lot around trust (even more than normal FOSS projects), I think it would be good if it

  • Used a real, non self-signed certificate. These can be very inexpensive these days.
  • Defaulted to HTTPS. When entering through http://,  automatically redirect to https://.
  • Used secure (https-only) cookies. So if you accidentally type http://, your cookies wont go over the clear and your session can be hijacked.

Hey, Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency, we need to show we have the right stance on security/privacy and don't see it as a low-priority issue Smiley

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There are several different types of Bitcoin clients. The most secure are full nodes like Bitcoin Core, which will follow the rules of the network no matter what miners do. Even if every miner decided to create 1000 bitcoins per block, full nodes would stick to the rules and reject those blocks.
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May 07, 2011, 10:29:16 AM
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Just wanted to provide a link to prior discussion regarding the SSL:
  - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2626.msg100559#msg100559

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