{"id":4938,"date":"2018-12-30T09:05:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T15:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2018-12-30T09:07:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T15:07:51","slug":"ssl-website-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4938","title":{"rendered":"SSL Website Encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One of the reasons I moved to InMotion as my website server\nprovider is they included FREE SSL (Secure Socket Layer) for every domain I add\nto my account. There are nice technical reasons why they can do this, but I won\u2019t\nget into the details here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are two reasons I wanted to add this feature to my websites. First is the eCommerce (store) sites I use to run a KautzCraft Studio Store , where I offer mostly my silver work and Ramblin\u2019 Dan\u2019s Store, where I offer Taig machine tools for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second reason is that today\u2019s browsers make everyone\nfeel insecure with the browser\u2019s built-in constant warning about sites that don\u2019t\nuse SSL as being \u201cunsafe or insecure\u201d. Not every site needs to be HTTPS (The \u201cS\u201d\nmeans secure) by installing SSL, but the browsers don\u2019t differentiate. They\nmark all sites not using SSL as unsafe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the past it required a static and single user IP address\nto install SSL on a website. It still does for the highest security for sites\nthat might attract the most serious hackers. Some forms of the SSL\ncertification can cost over $1000 per year and offer financial \u201cinsurance\u201d as a\nreason for the high cost. That plus the cost for the IP means SSL was not feasible\nfor non-revenue sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are ways to create and use free \u201cself-signed\u201d SSL\ncertification, but it is the lowest level and the browsers always warn that\nthese are not secure. They are perfectly fine for private use between known\nusers. They offer the same level of encryption as the purchased certificates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The InMotion \u2018Free\u201d SSL is equal to the low cost purchasable\n($40-$50) certification and is backed by Comodo, a universally accepted (by browsers)\ncertification agent. What makes it so good for me is that it doesn\u2019t cost me\nany extra and I can put this recognized level of SSL on every website I create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Certainly, this is how all websites can affordably offer SSL. On today\u2019s internet, SSL encryption should be a given, as InMotion has done. There are other providers certainly making the same offer. It\u2019s not going to replace the pricey high-level certifications, but it is the right step in making all internet traffic more secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After all, the whole internet concept was created based on\nFREE and easy communications. Of course, there are needs for standards, or\nnothing would work at all. Making standard SSL encryption free for common uses,\nis the right move. It works for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the reasons I moved to InMotion as my website server provider is they included FREE SSL (Secure Socket Layer) for every domain I add to my account. There are nice technical reasons why they can do this, but I won\u2019t get into the details here. There are two reasons I wanted to add this feature to my websites. First is the eCommerce (store) sites I use to run a KautzCraft Studio Store ,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}