Electronic Frontier Foundation (with partners Mozilla,
Akamai, Cisco, and IdenTrust) has announced that a new security certificate
authority, “Let’s Encrypt”, to be “free, automated and open” will arrive in the
summer of 2015. It will use TLS (the
successor to SSL) which it says every major browser uses now. The main link is here.
The new standard will make encryption much easier for
the “novice” webmaster than the current procedure.
Again, a good question is whether a website that does
not require users to log on (as my doaskdotell does not) needs encryption. I’ve noticed more traffic in recent years from
non-democratic countries, so certainly there is an issue for those
visitors. I’m far less convinced that
the NSA really cares when an average American accesses information about, say,
bitcoin, because there is simply an overwhelming amount of data to
collate.
A related ability, as recently noted, would be the
capacity to encrypt email correspondence.
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