Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-28 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 24 Jan 2008, Rick Faircloth wrote: I think the important thing here is to anything and everything the client wants as long as they're willing to pay for it, Hell yes :-) -- Tom Chiverton Helping to dynamically strategize plug-and-play e-business on:

Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-25 Thread Gerald Guido
A quote From O Brother, Where Art Thou? This stew's awful good. Wash responds, You think so? I slaughtered this horse last Tuesday. I'm afraid she's startin' to turn. Just sayin'... ;) On Jan 25, 2008 5:33 PM, James Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, wildcard certs work fine under Apache

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-25 Thread Russ
- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important? typically no, because virtual hosting relies on host headers. The web server doesn't receive the headers until after the connection is established

Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-25 Thread James Holmes
Yes, wildcard certs work fine under Apache too. On Jan 26, 2008 2:20 AM, Dave Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to see some proof of this. Is this only with wildcard certs (in which case it would only work for *.domainname.com), or it is for any kind of cert (such that you can have

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-25 Thread Dave Watts
I'd like to see some proof of this. Is this only with wildcard certs (in which case it would only work for *.domainname.com), or it is for any kind of cert (such that you can have www.example.com and www.example2.com) on the same IP with no SSL problems? Wildcard certs only. I

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
: SSL Necessary? Important? On Jan 24, 2008 11:38 AM, Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the SSL encryption overkill for something like this? IMHO yes. Unless they are willing to pay for more protection, because it is not free. Unless they use OpenSSL and self-sign, which

Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread James Holmes
a dedicated IP (required, correct?), plus whatever other charges an ISP may charge? Rick -Original Message- From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:02 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important? On Jan 24, 2008 11:38 AM

Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread J.J. Merrick
IP (required, correct?), plus whatever other charges an ISP may charge? Rick -Original Message- From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:02 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important? On Jan 24, 2008 11:38 AM

Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread J.J. Merrick
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 1:02 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important? On Jan 24, 2008 11:38 AM, Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the SSL encryption overkill for something like this? IMHO yes. Unless

Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 24 Jan 2008, James Holmes wrote: A dedicated IP is probably necessary with your host, since I assume you're sharing an IP right now. You can serve multiple different SSL'ed domains from the same IP, can't you ? Your existing hose may also have a cheaper deal too. -- Tom Chiverton

Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Thursday 24 Jan 2008, J.J. Merrick wrote: And on the topic I would say that it probably is overkill but a lot of times peoples perception of security makes them happy. But most web browser uses can't tell the difference between TLS and non-TLS, so sometimes you have to ask yourself if it's

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
I've never implemented and SSL cert, so I'm not sure, but I thought each SSL had to have a dedicated IP. ??? Rick -Original Message- From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:37 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Russ
Why would anybody spend more then $20 a year on an SSL cert? Godaddy's certs are perfectly adequate. Russ -Original Message- From: James Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:04 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important? For example

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
: Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:04 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important? For example, digicert certs are $99: http://www.digicert.com/ A dedicated IP is probably necessary with your host, since I assume you're sharing an IP right now

Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Rick Root
On 1/24/08, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 24 Jan 2008, James Holmes wrote: A dedicated IP is probably necessary with your host, since I assume you're sharing an IP right now. You can serve multiple different SSL'ed domains from the same IP, can't you ? Your existing

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
Yeah, I agree with that JJ... -Original Message- From: J.J. Merrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:24 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important? And on the topic I would say that it probably is overkill but a lot of times peoples

Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Claude Schneegans
But the church is also asking about an encrypted connection using an SSL certificate. What a meanness! Don't they have some sort of divine protection already? ;-) -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
Subject: Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important? On Thursday 24 Jan 2008, J.J. Merrick wrote: And on the topic I would say that it probably is overkill but a lot of times peoples perception of security makes them happy. But most web browser uses can't tell the difference between TLS and non-TLS

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Russ
) as one you buy for $600. Russ -Original Message- From: Tom Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:37 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important? On Thursday 24 Jan 2008, James Holmes wrote: A dedicated IP is probably necessary with your

Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Claude Schneegans
Of course users may not desire the warning about an untrusted cert and this can be worse than no protection at all. -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address:

Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Jim McAtee
@houseoffusion.com Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 10:16 AM Subject: Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important? On 1/24/08, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 24 Jan 2008, James Holmes wrote: A dedicated IP is probably necessary with your host, since I assume you're sharing an IP right now

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Jerry Guido
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 9:10 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important? yeah, it really isn't bad. Depending on the host they might have a shared SSL cert you can use. Essentially they just map your site as a folder underneath a larger site. In the end it is like

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Mark Kruger
24, 2008 11:17 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important? On 1/24/08, Tom Chiverton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 24 Jan 2008, James Holmes wrote: A dedicated IP is probably necessary with your host, since I assume you're sharing an IP right now. You can serve multiple

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
Possibly... but the Scripture also teaches Christians to be wise as serpents... :o) Rick -Original Message- From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:45 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important? But the church is also

Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Rick Root
On 1/24/08, Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would anybody spend more then $20 a year on an SSL cert? Godaddy's certs are perfectly adequate. That depends if it's an introductory rate or not. I wouldn't buy a $20 cert if I had to pay $90 to renew it, rather I'd just buy the $25 certs that I

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Russ
Godaddy certs are $20 all the time... I think they're on sale for $15 now or something... Russ -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 5:29 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important? On 1/24/08, Russ [EMAIL

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Dave Watts
Why would anybody spend more then $20 a year on an SSL cert? Godaddy's certs are perfectly adequate. unless you have a large enough number of users visiting your site, in which case some of them with older computers won't recognize the certificate as valid because they don't have the

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Dave Watts
You can always generate a bogus certificate for free (Like the default Snake Oil cert that is created by Apache). You will get the same level of encryption as a digitally signed cert (i.e: one that costs money) but the browser will complain about it not being signed or something of that

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Dave Watts
typically no, because virtual hosting relies on host headers. The web server doesn't receive the headers until after the connection is established. This appears to no longer be the case with IIS 6, at least. To be honest, I'm not exactly sure how this works with IIS 6, but it appears that

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Dave Watts
I've never implemented and SSL cert, so I'm not sure, but I thought each SSL had to have a dedicated IP. ??? This used to be the case, but isn't any more: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/5 96b9108-b1a7-494d-885d-f8941b07554c.mspx?mfr=true However,

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Dave Watts
I tell clients with public web sites that they probably need a cert from a popular reputable provider in order to avoid the browser warning. But the thing to remember is that (in most cases) the warning is saying that your company may not be ok ... Not that the information is unencrypted

RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-24 Thread Rick Faircloth
I'm not in a shared environment. I have my own VPS. -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:47 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: OT: SSL Necessary? Important? I've never implemented and SSL cert, so I'm not sure, but I thought

OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-23 Thread Rick Faircloth
Hi, all. Pardon a quick OT question (or two). I have a client (church) that wants to have a directory that is accessible to the membership, but not the general public. Access will be controlled by password/username login. But the church is also asking about an encrypted connection using an SSL

Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-23 Thread Claude Schneegans
Is the SSL encryption overkill for something like this? IMHO yes. Unless they are willing to pay for more protection, because it is not free. -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any

Re: OT: SSL Necessary? Important?

2008-01-23 Thread James Holmes
On Jan 24, 2008 11:38 AM, Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the SSL encryption overkill for something like this? IMHO yes. Unless they are willing to pay for more protection, because it is not free. Unless they use OpenSSL and self-sign, which is free. Of course users may not