I'm looking to integrate Sagepay Direct, their onsite payment gateway option but I've read that it requires an SSL certificate for secure data transfer. Is the Cloudflare pro DNS SSL a valid option for this payment method or would I need a true onsite SSL?
"Is the Cloudflare pro DNS SSL a valid option for this payment method or would I need a true onsite SSL"
It sounds like that they are requiring that you have a valid SSL certificate directly on your server, something we don't provide (Flexible would only do so between browser and our network). This really explains the difference in the SSL options.
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I am new here.
My website is LifelineFoundations and I haven't enabled SSL for this website.
Would someone please help me out and tell me the information regarding how to enable SSL certificate for my website, and in case if I won't enable it what would be the penalties I have to face?
An SSL certificate works to create an encrypted connection between your visitor’s browser and the server.
To enable SSL Certificate for your Website follow below steps :
Host with a dedicated IP address
Buy a certificate
Activate the certificate
Install the certificate
Update your site to use HTTPS
If you have hosted you site with some Domain Providers like GoDaddy, they provide a detailed list of instructions for installing SSL.
However if you have your own dedicated host with a web server installed, you need to generate CSR depending upon the operating system and have to make entry in the web servers. The instructions for the various web servers and operating system is mentioned here by DigiCert.
Regarding the impact if we don't go for SSL Certificate :
Mostly all the web browsers mark your website as not secure which creates a bad impact when a visitor is browsing your website
All the password and credentials would not be secure if entered through a non HTTPS Channel
All the form data and sensitive information would be critical and vulnerable if you are not using TLS( connection used when SSL certificate is installed ).
How to configure the phpBB3 board to use the https connection available through CloudFlare - Flexible SSL Certificate (the free one).
The free SSL option really just works automatically as far as issuance goes.
Notes: You still may have mixed content issues to address after the certificate has been issued.
I am developing a event website ( on php and mysql ) which requires online payment for event registration. The payment gateway we have purchased from a bank. The bank asks us to have SSL certificate for our website.. As banks websites usually have Verisign certificate therefore the people with whom we had a conversation told us to have verisign SSL certificate on our event website
When i checked Verisign.com then i found that there are many types of certificates available.
Secure Site Pro with EV
Secure Site with EV
Secure Site Pro
Secure Site
I want to know, is it enough to have the most basic of all.. what difference does it make with different options which are available with verisign. i still believe that the people at the bank have no knowledge of other companies providing SSL certificates. So can i use godaddy or other SSL Certificate providers instead of Verisign.
please help if anyone have worked with payment gateways and SSL Certificates..
You can use any SSL certificate you want. The SSL certificate and payment gateway are independent of each other and one does not directly affect the other. So you can use Godaddy or any other SSL provider you want with your payment gateway.
Can anyone tell me about SSL and how it can be used to secure a website?
SSL is an encryption method to send data securely over http. If you've seen a site with https:// at the beginning that means that it is using SSL. To use ssl to secure your own site, you need hosting that supports it (most do), you need to purchase an SSL certificate from a signing authority (Verisign is an example), and you need to write into your web application to switch to ssl when needed.
SSL doesn't secure your website- it merely encrypts the flow of information between the server and the browser. Despite SSL, you would still be vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting, non-authenticated requests etc...
What is difference between https protocol and SSL Certificate that we use in web browser?
Aren't both of these used to encrypt communication between client (browser) and server?
HTTPS is HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) plus SSL (Secure Socket Layer). You need a certificate to use any protocol that uses SSL.
SSL allows arbitrary protocols to be communicated securely. It enables clients to (a) verify that they are indeed communicating with the server they expect and not a man-in-the-middle and (b) encrypt the network traffic so that parties other than the client and server cannot see the communication.
An SSL certificate contains a public key and certificate issuer. Not only can clients use the certificate to communicate with a server, clients can verify that the certificate was cryptographically signed by an official Certificate Authority. For example, if your browser trusts the VeriSign Certificate Authority, and VeriSign signs my SSL certificate, your browser will inherently trust my SSL certificate.
There's some good reading here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security
Two pieces of one solution.
https is the protocol that defines how the client and server are going to negotiate a secure connection.
The SSL Certificate is the document that they will use to agree upon the servers authenticity.
HTPS is the new HTTPS.
HTTPS is highly vulnerable to SSL Stripping / MITM (man in the middle).
to quote adam langley's (google) blog imperial violet:
"HTTPS tends to cause people to give talks mocking certificate security and the ecosystem around it. "
The problem is that the page isn't served over HTTPS. It should have been, but when a user types a hostname into a browser, the default scheme is HTTP. The server may attempt to redirect users to HTTPS, but that redirect is insecure: a MITM attacker can rewrite it and keep the user on HTTP, spoofing the real site the whole time. The attacker can now intercept all the traffic to this perfectly well configured and secure website.
This is called SSL stripping and it's terribly simple and devastatingly effective. We probably don't see it very often because it's not something that corporate proxies need to do, so it's not in off-the-shelf devices. But that respite is unlikely to last very long and maybe it's already over: how would we even know if it was being used?
In order to stop SSL stripping, we need to make HTTPS the only protocol. We can't do that for the whole Internet, but we can do it site-by-site with HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS).
HSTS tells browsers to always make requests over HTTPS to HSTS sites. Sites become HSTS either by being built into the browser, or by advertising a header:
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=8640000; includeSubDomains
The header is in force for the given number of seconds and may also apply to all subdomains. The header must be received over a clean HTTPS connection.
Once the browser knows that a site is HTTPS only, the user typing mail.google.com is safe: the initial request uses HTTPS and there's no hole for an attacker to exploit.
(mail.google.com and a number of other sites are already built into Chrome as HSTS sites so it's not actually possible to access accounts.google.com over HTTP with Chrome - I had to doctor that image! If you want to be included in Chrome's built-in HSTS list, email me.)
HSTS can also protect you, the webmaster, from making silly mistakes. Let's assume that you've told your mother that she should always type https:// before going to her banking site or maybe you setup a bookmark for her. That's honestly more than we can, or should, expect of our users. But let's say that our supererogatory user... ]
because of obstructing/very stupid link-rules for new users on stackoverflow i cannot give you the rest of adam's answer and you'll have to visit adam langley's blog yourself at
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/07/19/hope9talk.html
"Adam Langley works on both Google's HTTPS serving infrastructure and Google Chrome's network stack."
HTTPS is an application layer protocol. It can provide non-repudiation of individual requests or responses through digital signatures.
SSL is a lower level protocol and does not have this capability. SSL is a transport level encryption.
HTTPS is more flexible than SSL: an application can configure the level of security it needs. SSL has fewer options so it is easier to setup and administer.