VideoLAN on HTTPS

10 October 2012

HTTPS, Cacert

For quite a bit of time, VideoLAN had its websites available on HTTPS. This is important for forums, wiki and other places were you had to log-in to avoid passwords in clear.

Unfortunately, our certificate was a Cacert certificate, which means that it was not recognized by most browsers.

Then Mozilla started its fight against SSL with the most stupid UI ever (and was followed by Chrome) to force people into this SSL certificate extortion business.

Therefore, when, last week, our Cacert certificate expired, we bought a new SSL certificate from Gandi.net.

Available websites

We have now quite a few service that now work on HTTPS:

PS: VLC and HTTPS

VLC 2.1.0 will play HTTPS in a better way, even with self-signed certificates of your seedboxes ;)

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

Comments

  1. On 15 May 15150, 3:21 by Jean

    Sinon, dans la quête d’un certificat gratuit, j’aime assez le concept de StartSSL (*) : ils ne font payer que ce qui leur coûte quelque chose. Et donc un certificat SSL de base est gratuit.
    Bon, après faut se faire à l’ergonomie désastreuse de leur site, mais bon ça se fait…