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Can't help but find it ironic the winner of the 2018 Levchin Prize for Advancements in Real-World Cryptography has an invalid SSL certificate on his research we
by mstachowiak 9y ago
Can't help but find it ironic the winner of the 2018 Levchin Prize for Advancements in Real-World Cryptography has an invalid SSL certificate on his research website.
- jlgaddis 9y agoI did think the same thing, but you can't blame that on him. Blame IBM/Akamai.
- Edmond 9y agoIt is on Akamai but it is on Akamai's non-TLS network (ie .egsuite.net)...you have to pay more for TLS on Akamai (.edgekey.net)....I'd blame IBM but not Akamai.
- nothrabannosir 9y agoYou can. Responsibility for their choice of business partners lies with them, not the public. Otherwise this blame-game-treasure-hunt-rigmarole never ends. It doesn’t matter that much, but it’s a matter of principle.
- emmelaich 9y agoAlso the levchinprize.com website. (not that there is a link to it; and it might not even attempt to do ssl) levchinprize.com uses an unsupported protocol. ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH Classic.
- duozerk 9y agoAt first glance they do support SSL, but not TLS; basically your browser laughed at their antiquated protocol.
- majewsky 9y agoA few hours ago, I went to their website after seeing the submission, and it worked. Now I'm getting SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP (in Firefox 57). Maybe they're loadbalancing and one of the servers is incorrectly configured?
- privateprofile 9y agoI can't help but finding it sad that the prize is a meager 10K, especially for projects that are so relevant for the Internet at large.
- amelius 9y agoSecurity, in any organization, is always last on the budget list. Perhaps this is reflected in the prize.