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type="topic" style="task"
id="http-warning">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#information"/>
<revision version="0.1" date="2012-09-25" status="candidate"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Alberto Mardegan</name>
<email>alberto.mardegan@canonical.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<credit type="copyright">
<name>Canonical Ltd.</name>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<license>
<p>Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0</p>
</license>
<desc>Explanation of the HTTP security warning.</desc>
</info>
<title>Sites using insecure connections</title>
<p>When performing the web-based authentication, you might be warned of a
security risk caused by the use of an insecure connection.</p>
<section id="http-warning-meaning">
<title>Meaning of the security warning</title>
<title>Security warning</title>
<p>Web-based authentications usually require the user to enter
personal indentification information, such as a username and password. The
information is then transmitted to the authenticating website over an
encrypted connection, which guarantees that the information provided won't
be accessible to other, potentially malicious, third parties.</p>
<p>Sometimes an encrypted connection cannot be established; this can happen
when the site itself does not implement all the requirements for setting up
such a channel, or when your internet connection does not allow the
transmission of encrypted data.</p>
<p>If you fully trust the internet connection you are using, there's a good
chance that the warning is shown because the website itself doesn't support
the encrypted channel, and in this case the associated security risk is
relatively low. If, on the other hand, you cannot trust your internet
provider or if you are using a public wireless network (also known as WLAN
or WI-FI), there's a higher risk that a malicious third party could steal
your account information.</p>
<p>In particular, if you start seeing this warning when authenticating to a
website for which you have previously never seen such a warning, it's
highly recommended that you don't continue with the authentication and
press the <gui>Cancel</gui> button instead.</p>
</section>
</page>
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