Hello Sorry for keeping you waiting, there have been several interrupts. Building a browser is harder than it sounds. But at least we now have a better defined plan for https-everywhere.
We at the Anti-Virus company Avira want to release a "Secure Browser". To achieve that we will take the Chromium browser and extend it. Many security features will be implemented by hard-wiring extensions in. We are not yet at the Beta phase, but already have 3 extensions, including Https-Everywhere. This number will grow. Many of our users do not know about extensions and their benefits. Having the best-of-security-extensions pre-selected is a large benefit. For our users the Https-Everywhere extension will contribute to the high-level security features "Secure Wifi" and "Secure banking". These high-level features are better understandable than "End-To-End-Encryption"....so we simplified the message. Our plan is to contribute some features either to Https-Everywhere or to a separate Extension (if you don't like it). I just documented them in the Github issue tracker. They are open for comments: https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/1885 (http-nowhere for banks) https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/1886 (anti crypto-downgrade) https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/1887 (certificate check) https://github.com/EFForg/https-everywhere/issues/1888 (Error reporting to server) ----------- 8< -------- Also: When the number of the extensions grows, the area next to the URL will get crowded. We want to produce a central extension (called "CIC" by us tech guys: http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/CIC) that aggregates the status/statistics of the installed extensions in a simple way and offers limited configuration for the extensions. Most decissions will be handled by the auto-pilot (zero user interaction, if possible). Then we can hide the extensions in the URL bar and it is tidy again. So mid-term we will have to add cross-extension messaging between https-everywhere and the CIC, allowing some remote control and statistics-requests. See: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/messaging#external I hope hat is ok for you ? We would appreciate your feedback and hope to contribute some valuable lines of code soon. Cheers Thorsten Sick -- Avira Operations GmbH & Co. KG Kaplaneiweg 1 | 88069 Tettnang | Deutschland / Germany Telefon / Telephone: +49 7542-500 0 Telefax / Facsimile: +49 7542-500 3000 Registergericht: Amtsgericht Ulm, HRA 722586 | USt.-IdNr.: DE 815289569 | Pers. haftende Gesellschafterin: Avira OP GmbH | Firmensitz: Tettnang | Registergericht: Amtsgericht Ulm, HRB 726712 | Geschäftsführer: Travis Witteveen Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Ulm, HRA 722586 | VAT-ID: DE 815289569 | Personally Liable Partner: Avira OP GmbH | Headquarters: Tettnang | Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Ulm, HRB 726712 | Chief Executive Officer (CEO): Travis Witteveen _______________________________________________ HTTPS-Everywhere mailing list [email protected] https://lists.eff.org/mailman/listinfo/https-everywhere
