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

choward:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Akamaiprocess.png

Or the more descriptive written form:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies#Content_delivery_to_a_user

On 01/27/2012 03:39 PM, Christopher Howard wrote:
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> 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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