Ssl

[c-ray]

coming soon

[muggles]

Thanks C-ray! Your efforts are very much appreciated...

Stay safe and watch your six!
Muggles

[c-ray]

https://www.cannabis-world.org or https://cannabis-world.org

it's 256 bit, we created our own certificate rather than using a third party one so you have to accept it when the box comes up


Q: Is it safer to access cannabis-world using SSL?

A: Yes, it is much better. Reason ... the communication sent between your computer and the server is encrypted under lock and key .... meaning .... all the 'packets' sent along the wire from you to the server has an encryption method added to it.
So, now if anyone is listening in on what you are doing on the site they can't easily read what your are typing, reading, etc - lets say - your password.... to read the packets, the person intercepting them would have to have the SSL key to de-crypt the data - which only the server and myself has - to make sense of the data.

If you are not running under the SSL, then all your text is sent across the line in plain text format (yes, some md5'n and other cryptics are used by vbulliten - but they all can be backward-read) and a sniffer can easily grab each packet, put them together and get what you are typing in and reading.

This information applies to all websites - which is why any REAL ecommerce site uses SSL's - either via their own site or via their Payment solution gateway (Egold, Paypal, cibc,etc).

[ntstephenson]

Is it beneficial, unnecessary, or even undesirable, to use SSL when using Tor/Privoxy, since Tor encrypts anyway?

[capt carnuba]

Tor masks your queries to name servers and bounces amongst gateways. It doesn't encrypt the actual data.

[ntstephenson]

Sorry captain, but I think you are mistaken... my question still stands.
http://tor.eff.org/overview.html.en

[capt carnuba]

No, but I will explain myself for more clarification. Tor reroutes packets and spreads them to various onioned i.p's. That way the communications are scattered, in effect like an echo, so no specific direction, or in this case i.p addy can be pinned to it. Those packets are in no way encrypted, meaning the communications are intact as sent and no alpha numeric shifting has taken place which requires decrypting.But, along with ssl it keeps listeners really having to work.

[kisanth]

Hey capt, what do you think about Protowall? It sniffs each packet coming to or leaving your comp and stops it if it's origin/destination IP is on a block list.