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Roger the Cat
50.2% (Neutral)
Newbie Topic Starter

4 years ago

My access to AN has always been Tickety-Boo through my Chrome browser. Today however I get the message:

"This site can’t provide a secure connection
www.aditnow.co.uk uses an unsupported protocol.
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH"

Has AN changed its settings or upgraded in the last 24 hours? I've changed nothing this end as far as I can tell although my anti-virus updates each evening.

Can anyone suggest a fix? I can't find one myself. I'm Running XP and can't upgrade the browser.

Nick

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royfellows
50.2% (Neutral)
Newbie

4 years ago

I think it happens randomly, I have encountered it on other sites.I am using Chrome and have no problems.

You obviously got in to post your message.

My avatar is a poor likeness.

cantclimbtom
50.2% (Neutral)
Newbie

4 years ago

It's not Aditnow you need to think about.
Windows XP cannot support modern secure transport layer security. It also stopped getting security updates (and went end of life in April 2014). I'm all about keeping perfectly good kit running and not upgrading things just for the sake of it but backup anything of value to some external drive then please stop using that old computer XP as soon as practical. It's a liability. Sorry this isn't the reply you were looking for.

Expert in incompetent tomfoolery

simonrl
51% (Neutral)
Administration

4 years ago

It's probably triggered by the fact I moved AditNow's DNS to CloudFlare yesterday to take advantage of their perimeter protection and ability to block entire countries.

The SSL certificate on the site itself is from ESET, so classes as a "proper" certificate, rather than self-signed. But maybe your computer is detecting the CloudFlare SSL, or - as cantclimbtom suggests - just can't handle an up to date secure protocol.

my orders are to sit here and watch the world go by

pwhole
50.2% (Neutral)
Newbie

4 years ago

I have to agree - updating your operating system is the fundamental fix to this. XP is risky these days, and not very solid. I've been using 10 of a couple of years now and had no issues - the firewall is solid, and with a good malware/antivirus package on top and not clicking on dodgy links, not a lot can get through.

Roger the Cat
50.2% (Neutral)
Newbie Topic Starter

4 years ago

Thanks for all your replies.

Actually, I can use Firefox to access AN which makes it all the more strange. I use Kaspersky Internet Security. You can set exclusions under encrypted connections settings. Firefox now lets me in without requiring me to authorize, but not with Chrome which I prefer generally. It's just a pain to have to swap browsers each time to view, that's all. The problem is with Chrome, and the DNS change, I think. AN works in Chrome on my wife's laptop running Windows 7.