New feature: SSL offloading
On many hosting platforms, including our own DrupalCONCEPT, secure traffic that is encrypted via SSL has to be handled directly by the web server. This not only puts additional computing load on those...
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Dropped SSLv3 support, moving to SHA256 certificates
On October 14th, the so-called “POODLE vulnerability” in SSLv3 was published. We remediated this security issue by disabling SSLv3 throughout the freistilbox infrastructure. To further reduce risks,...
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freistilbox gets excellent rating for SSL security
The risk that unencrypted web communication creates for both website owners and individual website users can be significant. That’s why encrypting traffic via SSL (Secure Socket Layer) and TLS...
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freistilbox SSL security rating bumped to A+
When we announced the Qualys SSL Labs A rating we got for the encryption quality of our Edge Routers in March, we knew that there still was room to improve. Our ops team kept tweaking the SSL...
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