With Chrome version 62 arriving next month Google will begin making good on the promise of warning users when they land on non-secure (non-SSL, non-TLS) sites. This will be subtle at first with a light gray warning on pages that contain any input forms. This warning message will get progressively prevalent and prominent with every — Continue reading »
The Long, Hard and Possibly Foolish Path to SSL/TLS Security
📆 July 3, 2017
... or TLS 1.2 on Fedora Core 14/FC14 and other older Linux versions With the chorus of secure browsing getting louder and becoming more prevalent, HTTPS migration is becoming inevitable. Going secure is a pretty major undertaking, fraught with numerous pitfalls. It starts with the source files that produce the html pages and it could — Continue reading »
HTTP to HTTPS Migration
📆 November 6, 2016
A universally secure internet may have its defenders and detractors but like it or not, Google is going to force site encryption (https) across the board. First it was the SEO penalty threat, supposedly giving higher scores to secure sites but it doesn't seem like that worked out great. I think Google recognized that just — Continue reading »
Google Secure Search
📆 May 23, 2010
Google has begun experimenting with securing its search site using TLS/SSL. This is the https scheme used by many ecommerce sites to encrypt web traffic between browsers and servers and keep the data safe from eavesdroppers. Not only is the data encrypted, but clicking on any results will not send the referrer information to the — Continue reading »
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