{"id":64,"date":"2015-06-30T04:45:57","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T04:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/?p=64"},"modified":"2015-06-30T04:45:57","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T04:45:57","slug":"new-upgraded-ssl-certificates-on-erowid-and-ecstasydata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/2015\/06\/new-upgraded-ssl-certificates-on-erowid-and-ecstasydata\/","title":{"rendered":"New Upgraded SSL Certificates  on Erowid and EcstasyData"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This last week we installed upgraded security certificates on Erowid and EcstasyData.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last couple years there have been lots of new exploits and problems discovered with SSL. Although we have kept up with all the security updates as soon as they were announced (thanks to JL and Brian!), we had not upgraded our web security certificates that allow for substantially more secure connections for browsers that request it.<\/p>\n<p>The new certs support <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SHA-2\">SHA-2<\/a>. SHA-1 is now considered &#8220;dangerously weak&#8221; and some groups have declared that they will no longer support it by the end of 2015. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.symantec.com\/page.jsp?id=sha2-transition\">https:\/\/www.symantec.com\/page.jsp?id=sha2-transition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As of today, SSLLabs.com gives Erowid.org an &#8220;A&#8221; :<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_65\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65\" style=\"width: 739px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssllabs.com\/ssltest\/analyze.html?d=erowid.org&amp;latest\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ssllabs_erowid_a.png\" alt=\"SSL Labs Gives Erowid A\" width=\"739\" height=\"231\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SSL Labs Gives Erowid A<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This last week we installed upgraded security certificates on Erowid and EcstasyData. Over the last couple years there have been lots of new exploits and problems discovered with SSL. Although we have kept up with all the security updates as soon as they were announced (thanks to JL and Brian!), we had not upgraded our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/2015\/06\/new-upgraded-ssl-certificates-on-erowid-and-ecstasydata\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Upgraded SSL Certificates  on Erowid and EcstasyData<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[15,14,16],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sysadmin","tag-security","tag-ssl","tag-sysop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erowid.org\/columns\/crew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}