[Tech] Partimus.org TLS/"SSL" cert

Michael Paoli Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu
Mon Mar 8 20:22:26 PST 2021


Uhm, y'all really ought fix your cert.

Whole lot 'o folks (and search engines) will be scared away,
and/or just not index your stuff or show or as much/well in
search results.

You've got a self-signed snake oil cert for
https://[www.]partimus.org/
And nowadays many(/most) browsers will go to or use or prefer to and
try to use https, rather than https.  And your cert for
https on www.partimus.org and partimus.org will throw warning errors,
ya know, stuff like:
[danger warning icon in red]
Your connection is not private
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from  
www.partimus.org (for example, passwords, messages, or credit cards).  
Learn more
NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID
and
[danger warning icon in yellow]
Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead
Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to  
partimus.org. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal  
information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details.

Stuff like that generally won't encourage visitors (or search engines
or indexing thereof).

You can get free cert from letsencrypt.org ... though those only last for
90 days ... so better for use when automated, so replacement is also
automated ... or you could spend the like $10.00 USD or so with a CA
to actually purchase a cert - that'd be good for about a year.



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