secure wiki using SSL

[jelevin]

I would like to put up a wiki that can be used for personal and family notes. I am leaning towards dokuwiki as the engine.

Plain text authentication using .htaccess doesn't seem very secure to me. Can anyone think of a reason not to use the futurequest shared SSL for this purpose?

Thanks!

[Kevin]

The only reason I can think of not to is the extra cost.

The standard .htaccess security may not be the most secure thing in the world but it isn't the least secure either. It is definately vulnerable to certain kinds of man-in-the-middle attacks and any system that your packets travel through could intercept the password as well.

Of course if you are using any of the non-encrypted authenticated services (telnet, pop3, imap4, smtp) they have the same problem.