Encrypting Web site traffic could become easier next year

Your online activities are only protected from prying eyes if the sites and services you’re using are encrypted — a process noted in many browsers with a little lock icon in the URL bar. But not every Web site is encrypted.

Your online activities are only protected from prying eyes if the sites and services you’re using are encrypted — a process noted in many browsers with a little lock icon in the URL bar. But not every Web site is encrypted.A new project could make it easier than ever for Web site administrators to provide a basic layer of security to its visitors. Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, Electronic Frontier Foundation, IdenTrust and researchers at the University of Michigan have formed a nonprofit organization, the Internet Security Research Group [ISRG], that will offer free, automated “security certificates” for Web sites starting next year.
www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/11/18/encrypting-web-site-traffic-could-become-easier-next-year/

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