Https

[Dougie Richardson]

Obviously we need to protect passwords, the question was if we need to do it with HTTPS now we have verification from HTTPS at OpenID on launchpad, which is where the passwords are exchanged.

Dougie Richardson (on a "smartphone")
dougierichardson at ubuntu.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Marko Oreskovic <markoresko at gmail.com>
Sent: 19 April 2009 23:32
To: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: Https

Matthew East wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Dougie Richardson
> <dougierichardson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7101017
>>
>> Why are we https and not http again?
> 
> It was because users sent their passwords and personal information to
> the website when logging into the wiki.
> 
> I don't know if the fact that openid is now used means that the
> website could be moved to http without compromising users' details.
> Does anyone else know more?

https is great thing to protect privacy I also think that
it is important to protect passwords and personal information of users.

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