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WordPress.com Enables HTTPS Encryption For All Websites

Posted by msmash on from the affinity-for-https dept.

On Friday, WordPress announced that it is bringing free HTTPS to all -- "million-plus" -- custom domains, essentially ramping up security on every blog and website. The publishing platform says it partnered with Let's Encrypt project to implement HTTPS across such a voluminous number of sites. From the blog: For you, the users, that means you'll see secure encryption automatically deployed on every new site within minutes. We are closing the door to un-encrypted web traffic (HTTP) at every opportunity.

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  1. mS versus ms by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    [...] today, TLS encryption of HTTP causes latency increases of a statistical 5mS at worst [...]

    Five milli-Siemens?

    * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_(unit)

    "s" is the SI symbol for seconds.