On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 03:29:15 -0800, S Mathias wrote: > Ok. It's a Firefox Add-on: > > https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere > > Questions: > > 1) But: Why can't i find it on the offical Firefox Add-ons site?: > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
It was there: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:udWjQhqxiWoJ:https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/229918/+HTTPS+Everywhere&cd=3&hl=es&ct=clnk&client=iceweasel-a > 2) Did anyone audited the "HTTPS Everywhere" code? This dunno... > 3) Can someone trust this Add-on? Is it safe to install/use? I don't like/trust anoymous (even encrypted) proxy sites. > 4) If it's so great why isn't it more prevalent? - SSL traffic is heavy and slow - There no need (normally) for encrypting public navigation (see the note below) > What's youre opinion? Or answer? :\ My opinion is that I don't want to encrypt all the traffic, at least not with the slow DSL connections/hosts we have now (loading a single page will take seconds). I prefer to leave the SSL/TLS for sensitive data (logins, etc...). Or better yet, provide a "hardware" solution for transparently encrypt all the data and its transport. Software is slow >:-) (note) I can see it could be useful for countries with non-free goverments, or for another, hum, uses... Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.01.19.12.57...@gmail.com