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Topic: Suggestion: bitcoin.org SSL cert from self-signed -> CAcert (Read 1563 times)

sr. member
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+1 for startssl Smiley
hero member
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Although one could trust the specific certificate which bitcoin.org uses, I think a CACert or startssl certificate would be really nice to have.
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Why not just accept the self signed certificate?
Because any Man-in-the-Middle could create a self-signed cert.
vip
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Why not use startssl instead of CAcert? At least the certificate would be trusted by default, and is still free
newbie
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I am aware that this feature request may be rather low priority, but I wanted to put it out here anyway. My suggestion is to switch from the current self-signed SSL certificate to one from CAcert. This way we have the benefit of working with a more widely accepted certificate (yesyes, still not in most main browsers, however still better than self-signed) and working with a more open approach to SSL certificates.

Especially when browsing bitcoin.org using Tor, I prefer to use SSL in order to prevent exit nodes from eavesdropping.
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