Reminder that British users can now buy SterlingCoin via instant bank transfer from
https://BuySLG.com.
A very useful facility, I'm sure.
However, when I click on the link, I get an "untrusted connection" warning.
This will not inspire confidence in potential users; please deal with.
Thanks!
Bit strange about the untrusted connection though, never seen that before. What browser are you using?
That website is using a currently valid 2048-bit COMODO cert. so you should not be seeing any warnings.
A 'valid' list of around 99% of certificate authorities is include by 'default' in most browser bundles. CA's mainly get included by paying huge sums of money to browser companies to get their companies root certificates included. An untrusted connection warning can appear for numerous reasons, such as the certificate being out of date or the CA's root cert not being included in the browser bundle by 'default'.
For example, on some of my web proxy sites I use 4096-bit CAcert.org certificates for maximum security, as both the private and public keys are max. 4096-bit. However, CAcert.org root certs. are not included by 'default' in the majority of browsers and therefore present a connection warning unless the correct root certs. are installed by a user. Its a bit like using an adobe flash plug-in. The irony being that a valid 4096-bit SSL Cert. is way more secure than a 1024-bit or 2048-bit cert. that most of the commercial CA's charge webmasters for. Loads of root CA's still use and issue only 1024-bit or 2048-bit root certs. Which is enough to secure users, but probably still allows some three letter agencies to easily read your encrypted data as it travels across the internet.
The most 'secure' SSL cert. would arguably be a self-issued and self-signed 4096-bit cert.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-signed_certificate because you don't have to trust any 3rd parties in respect of the certificate.
You should always inspect an SSL certificate to determine why its not valid though, as something bad could also be happening.
Encryption works, although the entire SSL protocol is mostly old and needs a fresh approach like this -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcAN.B. To anyone reading - this is a general discussion post and does not effect the security of Sterlingcoin. 