Using HTTPS on your site can be a great way to ensure that your users are receiving safe, encrypted information. If not configured correctly, HTTPS can be slightly slower when compared to HTTP, but there are steps that can be taken to reduce this overhead.
In light of a growing number of cyber security and data privacy concerns, replacing HTTP with its secure alternative, HTTPS, is becoming increasingly important.
This document describes a series of steps you can follow to gradually migrate a small or large web site from HTTP to HTTPS. You can take the steps at any speed — all in 1 day, or 1 step per month — but you should take them in order. Each step is an incremental improvement and has value on its own. However, your site does not provide a security guarantee until you have completed all migration steps.
Migrating to HTTPS presented a number of expected - and unexpected - engineering challenges, starting with finding the right CDN provider partner.
HTTPS, HTTP over TLS, has been around since 1994, and has been well adopted by the security sensitive web — online banking, shopping, taxes and more. However, the vast majority of websites (est. 81% to 97%) continue to communicate using clear (unencrypted) HTTP — no matter how insecure that is.
More and more sites are becoming HTTPS-only sites where the HTTP version simply redirects to the secure site. However that could be a problem if a user does not pay attention to how their browser is connecting. HSTS both allows your site to tell the browser to never ever again try the non-secure variant but you can also have modern browsers preload your site as secure meaning that no user ever would attempt an insecure connection. As long as users are using a modern updated browser that is...
The web is moving toward using HTTPS encryption by default. This move has been encouraged by Google, which announced that HTTPS would be a ranking signal. However, moving your website to HTTPS is good for other reasons, too.
HTTPS can provide identity, SEO, access to HTML5 powerful features and even keep network carriers from messing with your site's content.
If you think you’re clever enough to securely encrypt only part of your web application, you’re almost certainly wrong.
Post Snowden, and particularly after the result of the last election in the US, it's clear that everything on the web should be encrypted by default.
A community site to help site owners migrate to HTTPS with a simple tested process. Allowing you to filter the plan based on multiple platforms (WordPress, Magento, and more), hosting environments (cPanel, Apache, and more) along with the level of control / access you have over the site.
After more than a year of research and development, Netflix recently upgraded their infrastructure to provide HTTPS encryption of video streams in order to protect the privacy of their viewers. Despite this upgrade, we demonstrate that it is possible to accurately identify Netflix videos from passive traffic capture in real-time with very limited hardware requirements. Specifically, we developed a system that can report the Netflix video being delivered by a TCP connection using only the information provided by TCP/IP headers.
The bottom line is this: if you're serving anything over an insecure connection you need to be planning how you're going to go HTTPS by default now.
It seems that there is no limit to human ingenuity when it comes to working around limitations within one's environment.
Cryptography can be a hard subject to understand. It’s full of mathematical proofs. But unless you are actually developing cryptographic systems, much of that complexity is not necessary to understand what is going on at a high level.