Re: svn: /web/php-master/trunk/include/ functions.inc
| From: | Ferenc Kovacs | Date: | Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:15:49 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: svn: /web/php-master/trunk/include/ functions.inc | ||
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Hannes Magnusson <
hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 14:52, Ferenc Kovacs <info@tyrael.hu> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Richard Quadling <rquadling@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On 23 March 2011 13:14, Hannes Magnusson <bjori@php.net> wrote:
> >> > bjori Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:14:34
> +0000
> >> >
> >> > Revision:
> >> > http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=309599
> >> >
> >> > Log:
> >> > Prettify, and advocate https until we kill http
> >> >
> >> > Changed paths:
> >> > U web/php-master/trunk/include/functions.inc
> >> >
> >> > Modified: web/php-master/trunk/include/functions.inc
> >> > ===================================================================
> >> > --- web/php-master/trunk/include/functions.inc 2011-03-23 13:14:12
> UTC
> >> (rev 309598)
> >> > +++ web/php-master/trunk/include/functions.inc 2011-03-23 13:14:34
> UTC
> >> (rev 309599)
> >> > @@ -34,9 +34,15 @@
> >> > <li><a
> >> > href="http://wiki.php.net/">Wiki</a></li>
> >> > <li><a
> >> > href="http://bugs.php.net/">Bugsweb</a></li>
> >> > </ul>
> >> > - <h2>Have you changed your password yet?</h2>
> >> > <?php
> >> > +if (!isset($_SERVER["HTTPS"]) || $_SERVER["HTTPS"] !=
> >> > "on") {
> >> > + warn("Why are you not using https?");
> >> > +} else {
> >> > + warn("Have you changed your password yet?");
> >> > }
> >> > +?>
> >> > +<?php
> >> > +}
> >> >
> >> > function foot() {
> >> > echo "</body></html>";
> >> >
> >> >
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> >> >
> >>
> >> Using Google Chrome and IE on windows complains about the SSL cert.
> >>
> >> IE's recommendation is "We recommend that you close this webpage and
> >> do not continue to this website."
> >>
> >> Which is nicely severe.
> >>
> >> Examining the cert ...
> >>
> >> "This certificate cannot be verified up to a trusted certification
> >> authority."
> >>
> >> I don't normally bother with the error. It is only with regard to the
> >> recent breach that I'm raising this point.
> >>
> >> If https is being enforced, then not having a valid cert would
> >> certainly seem to be an issue.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Richard Quadling
> >> Twitter : EE : Zend
> >> @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> > if the money is the problem for getting decent(from a CA supported by the
> > major browsers, etc) ssl certs, then you should check out the free plan
> from
> > startssl, or ask for donations.
> > self-signed ssl sucks from the security point of view (you can't be sure
> > that you are seeing the warning because somebody man-in-the-middle you,
> or
> > the cert changed on the host, or that you visiting the site for the first
> > time, and didn't added to the trusted certs yet).
> >
>
>
> Its not self-signed. Its a cert from CACert.org.
>
>
> -Hannes
>
I don't want to repeat myself, but:
https://twitter.com/#!/Tyr43l/status/23784829891911680
https://twitter.com/#!/Tyr43l/status/23794710518697984
wiki.php.net was using a self-signed cert.
and as I said, the cacert cert has the same problems that I mentioned
(except if the root cert is installed by default on the client, if I
remember correctly debian ships it with ca-certificates)
Tyrael