Noel,
On Nov 7, 2013, at 10:35 AM, Noel Chiappa
<jnc(_at_)mercury(_dot_)lcs(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu> wrote:
Forcing everyone who uses Wikipedia (or the IETF web sites) to use HTTPS may
make people feel good, and/or serve as an expression of outrage at widespread
surveillance, but I'm not sure it's much more than that.
I believe the idea is that in the face of pervasive surveillance, one response
is pervasive encryption. If we're going to go down the road of pervasive
encryption, then we're going to need to make encryption as fool proof and
transparent as possible. Forcing HTTPS may be one (minor) way to focus
attention on making encryption easier.
Regards,
-drc
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