Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
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Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
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Re: Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
#2Awesome! Any idea how much of that is attributable to LetsEncrypt and HTTPSEverywhere?
Re: Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
#3Awesome! Any idea how much of that is attributable to LetsEncrypt and HTTPSEverywhere?
It's probably more attributed to browsers marking non-https as 'Not Secure' than anything but LetsEncrypt definitely has had a substantial impact to make that change possible.
Re: Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
#4Awesome! Any idea how much of that is attributable to LetsEncrypt and HTTPSEverywhere?
It's probably more attributed to browsers marking non-https as 'Not Secure' than anything but LetsEncrypt definitely has had a substantial impact to make that change possible.
Also Google mentioned they would begin ranking HTTPS sites higher.
Re: Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
#5Good news for sure, but note that this isn't a total Internet scan:
> We collect data from the browsers of site visitors to our exclusive on-demand network of analytics and social bookmarking products.
More details about their samples: https://netmarketshare.com/methodology
I would be more inclined to trust sources like https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/overview and Firefox Telemetry which come directly from the browsers. But even these do not count data from mobile apps (most of which have to be encrypted now I think), embedded applications, scripts, and APIs.
Re: Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
#6Awesome! Any idea how much of that is attributable to LetsEncrypt and HTTPSEverywhere?
It's probably more attributed to browsers marking non-https as 'Not Secure' than anything but LetsEncrypt definitely has had a substantial impact to make that change possible.
Pretty much this.
I ran into a local store taking credit cards awhile back, no TLS, weird, so I go to the store owner in person. I explain the problem and he insists that can't be the case, he's mad at me. "See! It's got a lock on the website!"... on the homepage. I direct him to the store and now it says Not Secure.
That did more to explain the situation than my attempt at TLS and HTTPS and Certs. He was able to call his web guy and say "It says not secure, Jerry! Fix it".
It was such a simple addition to (at least in Firefox) use the words Not Secure that it's crazy no one thought of it before.
Re: Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
#7Awesome! Any idea how much of that is attributable to LetsEncrypt and HTTPSEverywhere?
It's probably more attributed to browsers marking non-https as 'Not Secure' than anything but LetsEncrypt definitely has had a substantial impact to make that change possible.
> It's probably more attributed to browsers marking non-https as 'Not Secure'
Browsers couldn't have done that if https wasn't free and simple for servers.
Re: Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's probably more attributed to browsers marking non-https as 'Not Secure' than anything but LetsEncrypt definitely has had a substantial impact to make that change possible.
Pretty much this. I ran into a local store taking credit cards awhile back, no TLS, weird, so I go to the store owner in person. I explain the problem and he insists that can't be the case, he's mad at me. "See! It's got a lock on the website!"... on the homepage. I direct him to the store and now it says Not Secure. That did more to explain the situation than my attempt at TLS and HTTPS and Certs. He was able to cal…
If that doesn't work, there's also the argument that "credit card providers require it, and could stop you from taking credit cards until you fix it".
Re: Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
#9Awesome! Any idea how much of that is attributable to LetsEncrypt and HTTPSEverywhere?
There was a link a month or two back that showed Let's Encrypt is used by 30% of domains but if this is by volume of data not domain share then it'd be a lot less than 30%.
Re: Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%
#10I wonder how many fuel is burned to power servers and browsers to constantly encrypt and decrypt data which could be transferred much more efficiently unencrypted.