Posted on 05/31/2017 2:41:24 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
ANNOUNCEMENT: We have installed a new SHA-256 secure server certificate on our freerepublic.com domain and we have a NEW donate link: https://freerepublic.com/donate/
FR is now more secure than ever! Google, Firefox, et al, were flagging our old SHA-1 secure server as "not secure" even though our certificate was paid-up, still valid, still in force and our secure server was still encrypting our donation transactions as securely as always to the SHA-1 standard. You should see a green "Secure" padlock now when you click on our new donate link and that signifies that your transaction will be encrypted by the newly installed SHA-256 routine. We have a little more work to complete for redirects, etc, but when it's done, everything on https://freerepublic.com will be served as secure documents.
Donate securely online: Click here to enter your pledge by Credit Card, PayPal or Check! (make it a monthly if you can)
The old SHA-1 secure.freerepublic.com link and server will be phased out and retired. When John finishes with the redirects, the old posts containing the old link will automatically be redirected to the new link.
Thank you very much for your loyal support and for bearing with us!
Mailing address for checks or money orders: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
You’re Welcome, Jim. I love this place.
Certifiable fer sure.
Right! 256 bit encryption is pretty much the standard for SSL certs these days. Great Job.
Thank you very much, stillfree?!!
Thanks!
Nice....good job. Thanks for what you and your small staff does.
a href=https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/>
Given that modern web browsers have been dropping support for SHA1, this certainly needed doing, but it’s only part of the overall web site security equation.
I assume you are, or soon will be, using Stripe, or some other modern payment system that actually protects the user? (So your website never “sees” a credit card number?)
I’m excited to think that FR may soon be within modern, acceptable Web site security norms across the board!
Actually, the SHA-1 certificates were depreciated years ago:
https://www.trustico.com/news/2014/sha-1/sha-1-depreciation-replacement.php
Looks like the major browsers (IE, Chrome, Mozilla, Safari) all finally pulled the plug on browser support for the old SHA-1 encryption this past January.
Now... are there any plans in the works to hold a fundraiser for those of us who might be willing to chip in to help with some needed catching up on the hardware side of things (RAID, etc.)????
holy sweet mother of jesus
never in my lifetime
did I think that https://freerepublic.com would ever work...
I don’t know why they don’t just make another duplicate site for when this one crashes? freerepublic2.com or something. Turn it off until the original site crashes and then turn the backup on? To difficult?
Awesome upgrade. Thank you!!!
Thanks for everything!
The certificate is not trusted because it was signed using a signature algorithm that was disabled because that algorithm is not secure. Error code: SEC_ERROR_CERT_SIGNATURE_ALGORITHM_DISABLED
I've never visited secure.freerepublic.com before so I doubt it's a cache thing.
Being rich does NOT equal being evil.
Think of all the good things you could do, instead of of the stupid and evil things being done by people like them.
I would like to make it as possible for the "deep state" to see what I am doing :).
Thank you for the “https” everywhere, Jim.
Vanity request for information - anyone know how to stop Trump’s MAGA from billing me after repeated requests to stop payment the past six months?
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