Turn on HTTPS/SSL by default?

Bryan
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I'd like to see HTTPS for the website and for the project scheduler/downloading [1].

Seems like a really imporant thing to do security wise. Could someone hijack the schduler and have E@H users do arbitary work?

I'm happy to help with the infrastructure side (I work in Linux tech support), if there is anything I can do..

Thanks!
Bryan

[1] https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SecureHttp
[2] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=einstein.phys.uwm.edu

Logforme
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Turn on HTTPS/SSL by default?

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I'd like to see HTTPS for the website and for the project scheduler/downloading


I like this suggestion. All sites should default to encryption. Especially if the site handles user information.

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Could someone hijack the schduler and have E@H users do arbitary work?


Or make users download binaries infected with trojans?

https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere/deploying-https

Logforme
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Just noticed the site is now

Just noticed the site is now HTTPS, very nice!
One thing I noticed was that I got a warning when pressing the login button saying that the page is encrypted but the information sent to the server is not.

Anyway, great work guys. Definitely a big step forward. Thank you.

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