All the NetSurf web services [1] are now securely accessible. This has been made possible by the lets encrypt service [2] providing no cost certificates and pepperfish proving the infrastructure to manage them.
We are making this change to ensure our users privacy is protected. The NetSurf project collects no personally identifying data about users of our web services except that required to provide the service [3] and we do not believe third parties should be able to intercept such information either. Daniel Silverstone and myself have now updated all the NetSurf infrastructure to make https available. It is intended that after a short stabilisation period that web server and wiki will have HSTS [4] enabled. Once this occurs only encrypted connections will be available to NetSurf services. Please ensure there are no issues with the secure sites (let us know if there are!) and update any links you may have in external documents. [1] https://www.netsurf-browser.org/ https://wiki.netsurf-browser.org/ https://bugs.netsurf-browser.org/ https://ci.netsurf-browser.org/ [2] https://letsencrypt.org/ [3] The bugs interface requires a user identifier and email address which are required to use the service and we do not use that data for any other purpose than tracking bugs. [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security -- Regards Vincent http://www.kyllikki.org/