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Firefox Extension HTTPS Everywhere Does What It Sounds Like

Posted by timothy on from the effin'-sweet dept.

climenole writes "HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites. Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site. The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS."

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  1. The server needs to privde https, right ? by godrik · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I didn't read TFA, but something is bothering me.
    You can not connect in https to a web server that does not provide https ! Sur you could wrapt the connection in a secure socket between you and a proxy and then the proxy connect in unsecured standard http to the web server.

    But that's not https everywhere! it just protect spying between you and the proxy. The whole connexion is not encrypted...

    (or should I have read TFA ?)