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Is Stack Exchange affected by the upcoming mass revocation of Let's Encrypt SSL certificates?
For a few years now, Stack Exchange has used Let's Encrypt as their SSL security certificate provider.
Just today, a large number of security certificates issued by Let's Encrypt were found to have ...
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Invalid certificate on all SE sites
Sometime this morning my browsers started blocking all Stack Exchange sites with the following error:
Your connection is not private
Attackers might be trying to steal your information from workplace....
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Picture are not shown in all Stack Exchange sites [duplicate]
This is a screen shoot of SE I took from here. That's mine. But mine or others are the same, not working, no image is shown. That's makes it difficult for me to understand a topic. I have tried with ...
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HTTP -> HTTPS script didn't change everything [duplicate]
In 2017 the network decided to implement the HTTPS protocol, as was announced in Network-wide HTTPS: It's time. Although that post isn't completely marked as status-completed I think most, if not ...
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Is anybody else having PKI problems connecting using Firefox 67.0?
I suddenly started getting the following error message when using Firefox to access Stack Exchange sites:
An error occurred during a connection to math.stackexchange.com. A required TLS feature is ...
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Fix http://data.stackexchange.com to https://data.stackexchange.com with Community♦ for correct session handling
If I click on an HTTPS link to https://data.stackexchange.com, I will be identified:
But if I click on an HTTP link to http://data.stackexchange.com, I will not be identified:
This HTTP issue ...
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Why can votes be retracted for posts edited only by the Community user to change to https?
I understand what's written in the answer to "Why isn't the Community bot silent when editing posts that have http://* to https://* for stackexchange sites?", i.e.:
edits by the community bot ...
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CodeGolf.SE Meta site fails to load with ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
Here is an example of the problem:
I have HTTPS Everywhere installed if that may be doing anything.
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Help us fix broken images!
This is a request for help for fixing the broken images when switching to HTTPS soon (originated from Roadmap to HTTPS: serving and uploading HTTPS-images only).
There is a Crowd Crafting project set ...
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How is the roll-out of HTTPS images going?
Today I noticed (over on Crypto.SE, reproduced here on MSE) that when I upload pictures, the imgur links that are automatically inserted into the post now use https://i.stack.imgur.com/ instead of ...
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Unable to load various pages via HTTP across Stack Exchange domains while connected to Opera's VPN
I am the 1%. I love Opera. And I also love their new built-in VPN feature. However it appears that there are some compatibility issues when using it across the various Stack Exchange domains.
I don't ...
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"Your connection to this site is not private"
I'm using Chrome and since a few days/weeks ago I started to see this. Why is that?
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An error occurred submitting the question/answer/edit
Stack Exchange usually works flawlessly but lately I've been unable make posts – questions, answers and edits. When pressing the Submit button, Stack Exchange displays a red pop-up box saying "An ...
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Can't reach meta.english.se after Chrome updated to v53 unless I manually remove the https part [duplicate]
I'm on Windows 10 64-bit version 1511 (OS Build 10585.545).
Recently my Chrome updated to version 53.0.2785.89 m (64-bit) and since then I get this error when entering meta ELU.SE:
NET::...
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Why aren't protocol relative links recognized as linked questions?
Yesterday someone edited my question and converted all of my un-encrypted http:// links to protocol relative //.
At first I was like "Sweet catch!" because I'm always getting on to our webmaster for ...
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Firefox 'Untrusted Connection' warning when logging in any site of StackExchange
When trying to enter https://stackexchange.com/users/login I get the 'This connection is untrusted' warning from Firefox. I'm currently using internet explorer to ask this question. I have no trouble ...
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Links between SE sites giving me plaintext
I've come across a problem recently that when I click links to travel between SE sites, like in the dropdown list or the hot questions, the new page is all in plaintext. I've determined that the non-...
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Connection is not private when viewing per site meta over HTTPS [duplicate]
I discovered the problem on this thread: If time-travellers always arrive naked how and what would they trade?
In the comments, another user posted a link to another part of the site. I followed the ...
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SSL cert continues to fail to cover second-level subdomains [duplicate]
If you try to log in from a meta site (meta.*.stackexchange.com), you get an "Untrusted Connection" from Firefox, even without HTTPS Everywhere enabled.
For example, I just tried this on meta.law....
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StackExchange certificate issued for CloudFlare, SuperUser certificate issued to CloudFlare's FQDN
Two issues with the certs:
SuperUser certificate is issued to CN: ssl4121.cloudflare.com, not superuser.com, and shared with an unrelated site (https://wimdu.co.uk)
StackExchange certificate is ...
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Cannot log into Meta of the Mathematica subsite
Relates to: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/216394/269660
Despite all efforts, I seem not to be able to login to meta.mathematica.stackexchange.com, even if already logged into mathematica....
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Can't log into some meta sites
I'm logged into the main sites for Workplace.SE, Physics.SE, Money.SE, and Space.SE; but show as logged out when I go to any of the meta's for those sites. Attempting to log in again results in the ...
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Stats for HTTPS usage across the network
Are there numbers available on how many users are using the (not officially supported, but much desired) HTTPS versions of the SE sites?
I'd like to see percentage values of HTTP vs HTTPS use, broken ...
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Invalid SSL certificate on meta.*.stackexchange.com, can't log in without SSL [duplicate]
When I try to access meta.*.stackexchange.com via HTTPS, I get a warning:
meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is only valid for the following names:
*...
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https requests to cdn.static.net fail on IE9
I am currently using Internet Explorer 9 on Windows Server 2008. It seems that all https-requests to cdn.sstatic.net (SE's cookieless domain) fail. The corresponding http-request works fine for me. ...
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Unable to log in using Safari or Chrome – SSL Certificate Issues
OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 / Chrome 33.0... / Safari 7.0.2
I am unable to log in to StackOverflow using Chrome or Safari. Clicking the "log in" link displays a login page UN-styled by CSS and where the "...
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Roadmap for HTTPS/SSL support [duplicate]
Every once in a while, someone comes to Meta to report a bug about something not working and it turns out that person is visiting one of the network sites over HTTPS/SSL. The problem has been growing ...
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Losing HTTPS from SO to Meta [duplicate]
Viewing stackoverflow.com HTTPS and clicking on a notification link for the meta site changes from HTTPS to HTTP. The sites should remain in whatever protocol the user is currently using when ...
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Where is the TLS 1.1+ support for StackOverflow
I reconfigured my browser (Firefox 26) to fully demand TLS version 1.2 (and only this version) when connecting to any website. After some day of experience in browsing the net I noticed that when ...
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SSL Errors on Stack Exchange
I noticed beginning today that I'm receiving ssl_error_illegal_parameter_alert on various stack exchange sites. I've encountered the error so far on Stack Overflow, Meta Stack Overflow, and Superuser. ...
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The Stack Exchange SSL certificate does not cover Ask Ubuntu or Math Overflow
It looks like HTTPS recently went live on mSO, and so I went looking at the shiny new SSL certificate.
Unfortunately, I discovered that it seems to cover all the Stack Exchange sites except for Ask ...
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Is Stack Overflow's (SSL) log-in process optimal from a UX perspective? [duplicate]
Does Stack Overflow use SSL when transmitting passwords during the log-in process? This question comes up when you log-on, because there is no green lock in the browser when logging in.
I do use the ...
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DigiCert says "Your server is not sending the right intermediate certificates" for Stack Overflow [duplicate]
We have tight security setting our our network, that seem to be preventing Stack Overflow from loading. I did some digging and found that the static page that supplies the CSS and other static content ...
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SSL certificate OCSP verification issue on cdn.sstatic.net, SO's JS/CSS not loading
Since the beginning of July I have intermittent trouble loading SO because I randomly can't verify the CDN's SSL certificate through OCSP. Network connectivity is otherwise good (traceroute & ping ...
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Search results on https://stackexchange.com are broken because of "insecure content"
The search results on https://stackexchange.com are blocked because of:
[blocked] The page at https://stackexchange.com/search?q=https ran
insecure content from http://www.google.com/jsapi.
I am ...
