[HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS Everywhere makes interception easier.

2014-12-04 Thread John Nagle
"HTTPS Everywhere" forces some changes in the way the Web works that reduce security. It creates the illusion of security, not the reality. While it seems a good concept, there's a dark side. Here's the problem. If everything is encrypted end to end, caching by ISPs and content delivery ne

Re: [HTTPS-Everywhere] HTTPS Everywhere makes interception easier.

2014-12-04 Thread Alex Xu
On 04/12/14 03:29 PM, John Nagle wrote: > blah blah blah tl;dr https can be decrypted by parties that have the private key 1. what does this have to do with https; the same thing applies with http. 2. what does this have to do with https everywhere 3. how is this not 100% self-evident signatur