[Rhodes22-list] Does our website need SSL?

[Curtis Ruck]

You can get free legitimate certificates signed by the
https://letsencrypt.org/ project, though it's designed to be automated with
certbot, acme.sh, or another acme protocol client.  It is fairly easy to
setup.
--
Curtis


On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 9:21 AM Larry Gioia via Rhodes22-list <
rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> wrote:

> From our experience with my small company’s website:
>
> - the reason we use it is clients require it because they enter passwords
> and use of SSL encrypts them. Not an issue to the Rhodes site. Another
> reason is other sites that link to us prefer it to be an https link - again
> probably not an issue to the Rhodes site.
> - SSL is free, but a digital SSL certificate is needed from a certificate
> authority - the cheapest we found is GoDaddy.com, $64 first year, $80/yr
> thereafter.  To avoid the charge you can self-sign your certificate but
> website users will get a message saying this site uses a self-signed
> certificate- be sure you trust them. Makes people a little nervous.
>
> I’m no expert on this, it’s just what we found and do - perhaps there are
> now new free methods.
>
> Larry
> ‘14 R22 Language of Love
> ‘86 R22 <still unnamed!>
>
> > On Jul 19, 2020, at 11:37 PM, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > He's right. TLS 1.2 is the current standard and has replaced SSL. Folks
> > still use SSL as the general term, though.
> >
> >> On Sun, Jul 19, 2020, 19:46 Todd Tavares <tavares0947 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> My son is a web dev and said every website should have SSL..and its
> free.
> >> But he said the latest is TLS(?).
> >>
> >> Todd T
> >>
> >> tavares0947 at gmail.com
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 5:05 PM Peter Nyberg <peter at sunnybeeches.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Tom,
> >>>
> >>> You’ve mentioned SSL certification several times now, so I suspect that
> >>> this is a subject near and dear to your heart.  But I don’t understand
> >> why
> >>> you think we should have it.  The website isn’t doing e-commerce or
> >>> anything.  Could you elaborate?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>    Peter
> >>>
> >>>> On Jul 17, 2020, at 10:08 AM, Tom Van Heule <
> >>> tom.vanheule at intrinsicprograms.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Jesse - I also understand that nabble data is only partial - something
> >>> that
> >>>> there was nothing previous to 2009 in Nabble... but the entirety is
> >> where
> >>>> Peter indicated.  I would like to see someone who knows be able to
> >> update
> >>>> nabble to get ALL the data (or find another way to modernize the UI of
> >>> all
> >>>> the archives). Also Nabble, and for that matter our current site have
> >> no
> >>>> SSL certification.  https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/  this is
> >>> free
> >>>> and legit - but someone with access needs to go through.
> >>>>
> >>>> Peter - this looks great, nothing fancy needed, but more complete.
> >> Thank
> >>>> you.  And thank you for not using wordpress (it's a peeve of mine)
> >>>>
> >>>> aside- we KNOW there are photos that get lost in the archives -
> perhaps
> >>>> there is a content discovery tool we can run against the archives -
> >>> really
> >>>> most posts with a photo attached are worth indexing?
> >>>>
> >>>> Happy Friday all -
> >>>> Tom
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Tom Van Heule
> >>>> Intrinsic Programs
> >>>> tom.vanheule at intrinsicprograms.com
> >>>> +1 303 525 5266
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
>
>