[aklug] Re: irs.gov: SSL certificate too expensive?

From: Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com>
Date: Fri Jan 27 2012 - 15:42:40 AKST

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On 01/27/2012 03:39 PM, Christopher Howard wrote:
> On 01/27/2012 02:58 PM, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
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>> They are using Akamai's CDN, so the cert is valid for their
>> servers and not IRS.gov,this a much more expensive SSL
>> certificate than your normal one :).
>
>> -Erinn
>
>
> Does Akamai host their site? Presuming that Akamai hosts
> www.irs.gov, and presuming that IRS never purchased SSL support,
> then it would just be a matter of (mis)configuration that the
> servers provided a default certificate when an SSL session was
> attempted. I actually have this problem with some of my sites,
> although I use SSI.
>
> The humorous thing, though, is that www.akamai.org doesn't have a
> matching SSL certificate either. :D I think that if I was a
> company that sold "security and compliance" solutions, I would get
> one just for appearances sake.
>
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Of course, www.akamai.com is what I meant to type.

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