On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Matthew Petach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm sure when Gmail gets close to the same number of users
> as Yahoo, they will discover how challenging and painful it is
> to support that many simultaneous short-lived SSL connections.
True, however GMail has the adva
On 7/24/08, Hank Nussbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>
> > Interestingly enough, Google just added a feature to GMail to force
> > secure connections:
> >
> http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/07/force-gmail-to-use-secure-connection.html
> >
> > Jeff
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Hank Nussbacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wish Yahoo and Hotmail even had the ability of *reading* email via https:
> http://www.interall.co.il/hotmail-yahoo-https.html
Hah! It was only a year ago that Yahoo even added SSL capabilities
for login. Six months
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
Interestingly enough, Google just added a feature to GMail to force
secure connections:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/07/force-gmail-to-use-secure-connection.html
Jeff
I wish Yahoo and Hotmail even had the ability of *reading* email via
http
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Steven M. Bellovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The round trip issue affects latency, which in turn affects perceived
> responsiveness. This is quite definitely the reason why gmail doesn't
> always use https (though it, unlike some other web sites, doesn't
> ref
Once upon a time, Robert Kisteleki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I understand this is a huge can of worms, but maybe it's time to change the
> default behavior of browsers from http to https...?
This is a _DNS_ vulnerability. The Internet is more than HTTP(S).
Think about email (how many MTAs do
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 09:51 +0200, Robert Kisteleki wrote:
> Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> > Anyone have a foolproof way to get grandma to always put "https://"; in
> > front of "www"?
>
> I understand this is a huge can of worms, but maybe it's time to change the
> default behavior of browsers fr
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 09:51 +0200, Robert Kisteleki wrote:
> Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> > Anyone have a foolproof way to get grandma to always put "https://"; in
> > front of "www"?
>
> I understand this is a huge can of worms, but maybe it's time to change the
> default behavior of browsers fr
On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:51:40 +0200
Robert Kisteleki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> > Anyone have a foolproof way to get grandma to always put "https://";
> > in front of "www"?
>
> I understand this is a huge can of worms, but maybe it's time to
> change the default beha
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
Anyone have a foolproof way to get grandma to always put "https://"; in
front of "www"?
I understand this is a huge can of worms, but maybe it's time to change the
default behavior of browsers from http to https...?
I'm sure it's doable in FF with a simple plugin, o
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