Tim Landscheidt wrote:
> Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>>> Pretty much, yeah. :) We put "real" certs on public-facing sites, but
>>>> just haven't bothered with what is essentially our tech department
>>>> intranet. (But since we're crazy people it's open if you want
>>>> to look at
>>>> it!)
> 
>>> Wouldn't it be safer, and more convenient, to have internal sites use an
>>> internally created CA instead of self-signed certificates?
> 
>> Safer, but less convenient as it would take us a few extra minutes to
>> set up which we might as well spend on buying an $8 public-friendly cert. ;)
> 
> Does this mean that if I make an earmarked donation we could
> close this thread? :-)

Can I chip in a few more bucks to get the old MD5-hashed certs (like the 
one for bugzilla.wikimedia.org) replaced?  They may technically still be 
safe (if just barely), but at least the "SSL Blacklist" Firefox 
extension throws up a big scary warning about them and it's annoying to 
have to click through it.

-- 
Ilmari Karonen

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