Dr. Garbage SSL Security

We are using free SSL certificates issued by CAcert - a community-driven certificate authority.

We do not want to make our products more expensive through paying 1000+ EUR/year for SSL certificates to commercial certificate authorities like VeriSign or similar.

Internet Explorer and Firefox SSL Problems

You need to import the CAcert root certificate into your browser or otherwise your browser may prevent you from using HTTPS at drgarbage.com.

Please follow this HOWTO to import the CAcert root certificate:

http://wiki.cacert.org/wiki/BrowserClients

or for Debian/Ubuntu

aptitude install ca-certificates

Prefered Protocol can be Stored in a Cookie

You can instruct our web site either to prefer or to avoid HTTPS through storing your preference in a cookie on your computer.

After you have imported the CAcert root certificate, you can set your preference to

If installing CAcert root certificates is too complicated for you or if you do not care for security, you can instruct our web site to always avoid using HTTPS:

Your current preference: