Finally found time after months to secure my wordpress installation. I installed tonight openSSL on my Linux box, a GeoTrust certificate and enabled Secure Socket Layer. Now the access to the admin area is secured via SSL access and the password transfer is not transparent anymore.

It does not make sense to SSL secure the whole blog, due to performance aspects and the fact that non-secure content are embedded anyhow.

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