http://nfriedly.com/techblog/2009/06/users-cant-see-https-website/ Expert Advice on Website Development, Javascript, Ajax, and Security Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:58:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://nfriedly.com/techblog/2009/06/users-cant-see-https-website/comment-page-1/#comment-651 nFriedly Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:21:16 +0000 http://nfriedly.com/techblog/?p=1#comment-651 Well, that's the thing, it's *not* disabled by default in IE. Probably 95% of the visitors to the site I was working on had no trouble. But the fact that it kept coming up led me to dig into it and figure this out. Well, that’s the thing, it’s *not* disabled by default in IE. Probably 95% of the visitors to the site I was working on had no trouble. But the fact that it kept coming up led me to dig into it and figure this out.

]]> http://nfriedly.com/techblog/2009/06/users-cant-see-https-website/comment-page-1/#comment-650 Matthew Ungard Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:25:59 +0000 http://nfriedly.com/techblog/?p=1#comment-650 That setting has been disabled in Opera as well, for as long as they were supporting it. It seems that TLS 1.2 uses a different hashing algorithm (SHA-256) than the earlier versions (SHA-1 or MD5). My guess is that it's just a sane default until it can be forced through (i.e. when everyone and everything on both the client side and the server side have definite, working support for it). That setting has been disabled in Opera as well, for as long as they were supporting it. It seems that TLS 1.2 uses a different hashing algorithm (SHA-256) than the earlier versions (SHA-1 or MD5). My guess is that it’s just a sane default until it can be forced through (i.e. when everyone and everything on both the client side and the server side have definite, working support for it).

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