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That said, communication in advance is the key. I endorse Roy's request that changes be announced in advance, something like "SECURITY: service change in two weeks, upgrade to latest stable now" or similar. We will be doing this again. Quantum computers are coming and we will be junking our current public key algorithms. It is just a matter of time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography Kind regards, Ben. On 21/11/17 11:36, Sean Arms wrote:
As a somewhat related issue, many organizations are requiring all connections go to https, and we have had several support questions from ESGF, NASA, and NOAA regarding issues with the TDS when https is forced. We very recently setup our development TDS to have apache force https everywhere to hopefully catch issues sooner rather than later. Unfortunately, I don't think we could have caught this particular issue since it was likely a change in a third party library that allows things to work, and we don't run older versions of the TDS.
-- Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand
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