On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
Good question.
There are two steps to this:
- Move all logins to TLS
- Move all logged in users to TLS
3) Serve all traffic via HTTPS 4) With PFS and long HSTS timeouts
The former was dependent on a bug with E:CentralAuth that was causing $wgSecureLogin to malfunction. I am not sure whether this bug was ever fixed (I remember seeing Chris submit a patch for it, but I think it was abandoned).
The bug has been fixes as part of the new SUL code. Yay!
Also, the discussion on https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52283 is probably a blocker for enabled $wgSecureLogin (which would be a pre-requisite for either of the two above steps).
As a few people noticed, we actually threw the switch on wgSecureLogin yesterday, at which point the UX people felt that experience wasn't ready, and it was reverted. This bug was one of the issues identified, where they felt the UX would actually harm the editor experience.
We also have some scaling concerns, so ops is also working on making sure we have enough capacity on hand to handle major spikes after we enable this. Hopefully we'll tie up all the loose ends in the near future, and can try getting to step #1 again.
*-- * *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerromeo@gmail.com
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 2:36 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Jimmy just tweeted this:
https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/362626509648834560
I think that's the first time I've seen him say "fuck" in a public communication ...
Anyway, I expect people will ask us how the move to all-SSL is progressing. So, how is it going?
(I've been telling people it's slowly moving along, we totally want this, it's just technical resources. But more details would be most useful!)
- d.
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