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10-23-2013, 09:12 AM #1Junior Guru
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Flexible SSL secure?
Hi there,
Cloudflare offers Flexible SSL with their Pro accounts. It enables you to use SSL without installing a certificate on the server. It secures the connection between the visitor and cloudflare but not between cloudflare and the website server.
So my question is: Is this configuration secure enough?
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10-23-2013, 09:47 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Enough for what is the question. If you are conducting any sort of transaction that should be "secure" then you should have full SSL, as the data is not being encrypted from CF back to your server. So it really only provides protection from someone sniffing traffic on the end user's network.
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10-23-2013, 09:56 AM #3Junior Guru
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10-23-2013, 10:06 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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See my other comment. I would want end-end encryption for that. Any data being passed between the server and CF is unencrypted. If you wouldn't do something without SSL completely, then you shouldn't use the "flexible ssl" in it's place. It's a nice option for adding a layer of security to something that doesn't already have it, but it is not a replacement.
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