SSL Support For SUBERNOVA And What This Means To You

SSL existed ages ago but we’re only starting to install it for SUBERNOVA as our user base is growing. SSL ensures that data transferred between your computer and our servers remain encrypted and private.

Why SSL?

As our user base grows, more and more users are using SUBERNOVA on the go. For instance, if you’re using a public WI-FI connection to access SUBERNOVA on any platform (web, iPhone or iPad), your data is transferred to and from an untrusted network. Anyone can eavesdrop on the data you’re transmitting when your data is on the way to our servers and back.

With SSL, your data is encrypted first before transfer. This means that if your data gets jacked along the way, they won’t be able to interpret the data. You can now use SUBERNOVA securely on a public internet connection.

How Does It Affect You?

Not much. SSL is almost invisible to you, except that most browsers will show a lock icon near the right of the address bar, eg. Safari. On Google Chrome, you’ll notice that the address bar turns yellow, letting you know that your interaction with SUBERNOVA is secured and encrypted by SSL.

If you’ve been using SUBERNOVA on the iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, you’ll notice that we ask you to re-install SUBERNOVA by going to app.subernova.com. This is because we’ve moved our iPhone app to the SSL secured directory. You’ll only need to do this once, the chances of us moving the files again are close to none.

For the AIR app, there is an update available (you’ll see this on your next launch of the previous AIR version). Just update and you’re done.

On the web, everything remains the same. For the web version, you’ll be automatically redirected to https://app.subernova.com if you have not included the “s” in http.

For those of you using your custom domain name to login to SUBERNOVA, you’ll be redirected to https://app.subernova.com as it’s impossible to use SSL on your custom domain. But your custom domain for quotes and invoices remains the same as we’re not using SSL for viewing quotes and invoices.

Conclusion

With a growing user base, it’s imperative to use SSL to secure our users’ data. We hope you are happy with this added security. :)