Re: OpenBSD Foundation on HTTPS

Hello,

because HTTPS increases the authenticity, integrity, privacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS

going to apache/iis/nginx/linux will not increase "security". since they have very buggy code.

but for HTTPS, luckily, OpenBSD has LibreSSL. Or are we not trusting the code in the base?


> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 at 12:11 PM
> From: "Vivek Vinod" <vivek@icanconnect.com>
> To: "Hess THR" <hessnovTHR44@mail.com>
> Subject: Re: OpenBSD Foundation on HTTPS
>
> 1) Why do you want https support?
> 2) Most websites use IIS, Apache or Nginx. Maybe you should suggest we shift to IIS as well? Wait, I guess more people use Linux, so we should stop using OpenBSD all together.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: <owner-misc@openbsd.org> on behalf of Hess THR <hessnovTHR44@mail.com>
> Date: Friday, 15 December 2017 at 4:20 PM
> To: <misc@openbsd.org>, <directors@openbsdfoundation.org>
> Subject: OpenBSD Foundation on HTTPS
>
> Hello, Just noticed that the: http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/ doesn't
> supports HTTPS, while in 2017 Dec, ~70% of the websites does:
> https://letsencrypt.org/stats/#percent-pageloads Can we have HTTPS for
> the OpenBSD Foundation? Which Official OpenBSD related domain hasn't got
> HTTPS yet? I whish you happy holidays and again, Thanks for all the work!
> BTW, wow:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7jj0oa/im_donating_5057_btc_to_charitable_causes/dr6q6tj/?context=3
>