pf » Tag: ssl on Pete Freitag's Blog

I was considering purchasing something from a foreign site today (I'm not going to name names), but then I noticed this link on the order form page:

I'm speechless!

Chris Shiflett, the author of Essential PHP Security posted a cool idea on his blog about secure forms. His idea was to have browsers show visually that a form action is secure (going to a HTTPS page). A good idea, I hope to see that implemented.

I didn't know that you couldn't buy SSL certs for international domain names (naive americans). I have only ever bought them for .com names.

GoDaddy is giving away free SSL Certificates for open source projects. Sign up here.

Go Daddy is committed to the open source community. We want your site and data to be secure  and were willing to foot the cost to make them just that.

I found some instructions for converting SSL certificates generated for IIS to private key, and cert files you can use on unix, or Apache for windows.

First Export your IIS certificate into a pfx file (this is something you should do anyways for backup)

Run mmc.