Hello, re. the dedicated server for bitcoin.org idea, I have a few thoughts
1) I have commented in a blogpost of August 2013 at https://odinn.cyberguerrilla.org/ with some thoughts relative to possible issues with CA related to bitcoin.org - where I mentioned something relative to the DigiCert certificate, "DigiCert “may revoke a Certificate, without notice, for the reasons stated in the CPS, including if DigiCert reasonably believes that” (…) “Applicant is added to a government list of prohibited persons or entities or is operating from a prohibited destination under the laws of the United States” (…) “the Private Key associated with a Certificate was disclosed or Compromised”" In the same post I mentioned "Bitcoin.org has no certificate, no encryption — a situation which has its own obvious problems. Bitcoin.org currently sends users to download the bitcoin-qt client from sourceforge. Sourceforge is encrypted and has a certificate based on GeoTrust: https://www.geotrust.com/resources/repository/legal/" (Currently (Dec. 7, 2013) bitcoin.org shows as 'not verified' and 'not encrypted' examining it in a cursory fashion w/ Chrome) Not sure how this would work, but it would be nice to see the content at bitcoin.org encrypted, of course, but also further decentralized? how many mirrors are there of bitcoin.org - not sure, but a few things that come to mind when thinking of this are Tahoe-LAFS and also .bit stuff (namecoin). There are many ways to decentralize something but that is just something that comes to mind. This has been discussed at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=16312.0 ('Is Bitcoin.org a weakness of bitcoin?) in the past and see also this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=119652.0 which discusses mirroring of certain content Some things to think about. > I would like to know what are your thoughts on moving bitcoin.org on a > dedicated server with a SSL certificate? > > I am considering the idea more seriously, but I'd like some feedback > before taking steps. > > Saïvann > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK > Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. > Download it for free now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development