How to Enable SSL on Tumblr, WordPress, Blogger, AppEngine, Posterous & More...

The text discusses how to add SSL encryption to third-party platforms like Tumblr, WordPress, Blogger, AppEngine, Posterous, Ning, TypePad, and Smugmug using CloudFlare. To do this, users need to set up a custom domain for their site and then add it to CloudFlare. SSL is now included in all plans, but users will need to select one of the paid plans to get SSL support. The Flexible SSL setup ensures that connections from a browser to CloudFlare are encrypted via HTTPS, while connections from CloudFlare to the platform pass over unencrypted HTTP. This mitigates 99% of the real risk and protects users from someone next to them in a coffee shop sniffing their cookie or password information.