Re: Community accounts and SSL

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Community accounts and SSL
Date: 2008-03-12 21:25:11
Message-ID: 900.1205357111@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> That is certainly one way, but do we really need that? Isn't a self
> signed cert good enough?

Self-signed certs on a public-facing website scream of amateurism.
Every time someone visits the site, their browser will complain
about it, and quite rightly.

If you wanna do this, you need to pony up some cash to Verisign or
one of the other recognized CAs.

regards, tom lane

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