website not encrypted

Hi there. I know....the site was down. Just wanted u to know though the msg I kept getting was "this site certificate is not encrypted" Just thought I;d let you know,

That's because it's not.

You could type https://christianchat.com - you will still get a certificate warning, though.

There's no need for encryption on CC.....The whole site is unencrypted except for the donation page.....That's encrypted to make sure your financial information is private if you decide to make a donation. The rest of the site....no need to encrypt, it's all publicly available information.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to encrypt CC, especially if your coming here from a country that doesn't like christianity too much and does packet inspection for keywords like "christian", "bible" etc. Something for RoboOp to consider.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

Encrypting would slow the site down a lot.

If people need to visit from a country that doesn't like Christianity, they need to use proxies.

Proxy doesn't mask the ISP's identification of the end user. At best, it will prevent CC from properly tracing the user's IP address.

You don't have to force HTTPS, just enable port 443 with any SSL provider. It doesn't affect Google Rank. Paypal, Google itself, eBay, and all reputable online stores already have HTTPS on by default when you login. This is to protect you from session stealing mostly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Socket_Layer
https://www.instantssl.com

Most web-proxies are setup by people recording everything you do; more or less defeating the purpose. Stealing your cookies so they can do session hijacking or downright grab your passwords in plain-text. If in an evil country, they can also log everything and use it against you later, e.g. China. HTTPS would prevent them from eavesdropping as much. Also, I've used HTTPS over dial-up, doesn't slow it down too much at all.

True. Also, most people that are actually in those areas aren't using open-proxies anyway. They resort to TOR or VPN providers, although China recently shutoff all unauthorized VPN use making it even more difficult for the poor people there to get out into the free internet.

It would be a big help, to prevent password-stealing but not a lifesaver. Most of the times they just block DNS access altogether; meaning ChristianChat.com would not resolve in their country, or intercept the SSL cert and replace it with their own - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/iranian-man-middle-attack-against-google

Anyways enough geek talk, none of the staff has responded to their thoughts on the post yet...

To encrypte the whole site would re-quire more CPU usage and at time more ban-with. Once we encrypted the site then we would have to close all of the chat pages were only members can veiw the fourms pages. And let not forget the chat side of this site. They would have to recode the scrip for encyption. Then talk about lagging... You'll rip your hair out.

This site realy don't need to be encrypted. If you live in a country that is let say "evil" twords christains. there ways you can secure your computer and browsing the web. By being Christain you accepted that one day you wull be judge for loving Christ on earth.

Here in the U.S.:



So to end this comment: it to much resources to encrypt this site.

another thing to consider possibly since i don't know how this works.....a woman recently blogged that seemed to be high risk from an abuser. she would be a person who would need a very secure site

Pssssst! The word is 'bandwidth'...

haa haa, like i said I just got up from only a 4 hour bed time. my eyes and brain does not want to work.lol

Ahhh, thank you I didn't know that. God Bless.