I agree--the reality of any risk is small enough to normal people to be irrelevant, but the damage to credibility among those who might want to use GNC but are not familiar with the significance of public key asymmetric cryptography, is not at all trivial.
Meanwhile, thank you Dr. Kirbly, your note on letsencrypt was spectacularly timely, I was literally just in the process of trying to work out how to get a certificate for a "scratch domain" I'd set up in AWS, and this has worked a treat :) Cheers, Simon On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 11:53 AM Dr. David Kirkby < drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 at 15:22, <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 11:16:09AM +0000, Michael Hendry wrote: > > > I’ve been promoting GnuCash to incoming Rotary Club Treasurers, and > I’ve > > > just been informed that www.gnucash.org is being flagged up as > dangerous > > > because its site certificate expired recently. > > > > > How does that make the site 'dangerous'? All it means is that > > communication between you (i.e. the user) and the site isn't > > encrypted. As you don't need to send or receive any confidential > > information the lack of encryption is wholly irrelevant! > > > > -- > > Chris Green > > > Whilst I don’t disagree with you on a technical level, you need to bear in > mind that browsers are going to warn people, and that will put people off. > > There’s a body of opinion that this will impact Google ranking. > > I have in the past paid for a fairly expensive EV SSL certificate, but now > I use > > https://letsencrypt.org/ > > on Debian Linux. The certificates are valid for 90 days, but renewed after > 60 days. > > Dave. > -- > Dr. David Kirkby, > Kirkby Microwave Ltd, > drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk > https://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/ > Telephone 01621-680100./ +44 1621 680100 > > Registered in England & Wales, company number 08914892. > Registered office: > Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 6DT, United > Kingdom > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. > -- Simon Roberts (303) 249 3613 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
