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Comment Re:Cost of certificates (Score 2) 238

With StartSSL the actual cert generation is easier than that as they create the key on their server first and they ask for the forms on the site. No CSR is needed, though you can do it that way if you wish.

What is a tiny bit annoying is their authentication - you need a client authentication cert installed on your browser. Not hard in itself, but annoying if you have let the old one expire as they then need to review your request for a new one.

One other thing is verification that you own the domain, through various methods. Not hard to do, but automated and very necessary.

Comment Re:Sounds good to me (Score 1) 238

What? I think this thread is going off track somewhat. I don't think Dave420 was talking about Client Auth certs. He was talking about root certs installed on the clients. Without the standard set of root and intermediate certs installed on the client (Installed by default on web browsers and some other clients such as Java virtual machines etc), TLS will not work (Well it will, but there will be warnings).

What Dave420 meant was that for the appliances and software solutions that cache/inspect the TLS traffic can only do so if a new root cert is installed on the client. This root cert enables the MITM device to create its own cert for any website without the client throwing up a warning.

Nothing to do with client auth.

Comment Re:Yes (Score 1) 238

Even for lower use images, caching them closer to the poster could be helpful given that their circle of friends is likely, statistically, to be in the same region. One image alone would not make much difference in this case, but millions of low use images mostly coming from caches closer to most of the people viewing them would make a huge difference.

Comment Re:I have an idea (Score 1) 174

The profile is sourced after the bash shell has already initialised. If my understanding is correct, the exploits are triggered because bash parses the environment during initialisation.

Not sure if this is 100% correct, or if there is a difference in before vs after parsing, but if I am correct, this would not affect user profiles.

Anyone care to expand?

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