[OTR-users] OTR now testing Bitcoin donations

Ian Goldberg ian at cypherpunks.ca
Fri Jul 26 07:29:08 EDT 2013


On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:08:02AM -0700, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Ian Goldberg <ian at cypherpunks.ca> wrote:
> > Thanks so much, both for the generous donation and for the plug!  ;-)
> 
> No problem.
> 
> One comment I heard a couple times on IRC is that people have remarked
> that you're sharing that address on a non-SSL webserver (https on your
> site throws a certificate error in most browsers). This creates a
> little exposure that a MITM could redirect the funds.
> 
> You might want to drop in a GPG signed copy of the address. Though for
> a donation most people don't care too much.

Moving the site to a physically different server (with SSL) is on the
to-do list.  I taught my last class of the term yesterday, so once
exams/projects are graded, I should be able to actually start tackling
the to-do list.  :-p

   - Ian



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