Aryeh Gregor wrote:
For what it's worth, I also don't think SSL is worthless. I don't personally see any reason to go out of my way to use it, and think it's a little odd for someone else to do that given the marginal benefit it would provide by any metric. But I'd definitely agree that if it could be enabled for all Wikipedia users by *default* that would be great. A small benefit times millions of users can be a very big benefit. An ideal Internet would encrypt *and* sign all communications with no opt-out. (One of the things I'm looking forward to if Google Wave takes off!)
I'm rather a secure Internet kinda guy, having written many of the IETF pre-SSL authentication and encryption proposed standards; the ones that the FBI and NSA opposed, and hit me with an investigation for treason.... Folks sometimes forget (or never knew) that SSL was weakened by design.... Anyway, I'm happy to help make Wikipedia somewhat more secure. Here's a ganglia CPU picture that might explain a little of the problem. I'm trying to edit off-peak hours, but those peaks are devastating!
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