4、研究者称去年网页加密流量显著增加
标题:2016 Saw A Massive Increase In Encrypted Web Traffic
作者信息:Sunday January 01, 2017 By David
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EFF's "Deeplinks" blog has published nearly two dozen "2016 in Review" posts over the last nine days, one of which applauds 2016 as "a great year for adoption of HTTPS encryption for secure connections to websites." An anonymous reader writes:
In 2016 most pages viewed on the web were encrypted. And over 21 million web sites obtained security certificates -- often for the first time -- through Let's Encrypt. But "a sizeable part of the growth in HTTPS came from very large hosting providers that decided to make HTTPS a default for sites that they host, including OVH, Wordpress.com, Shopify, Tumblr, Squarespace, and many others," EFF writes. Other factors included the support of Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.3 by Firefox, Chrome, and Opera.
EFF发布了2016年的全面回顾总结,一共分了23分类,这些报告是在近10天内发布的。其中之一是关于互联网上的网络采用HTTPS协议,而不是向以前传统的HTTP。并且其比例呈现大幅增长的趋势。增加的网站总数大约有2100万个,这些网站大多首次采用HTTPS。原因是很大一部分的网站提供服务商(包括OVH, Wordpress.com, Shopify, Tumblr, Squarespace等)将
HTTPS作为默认设置导致的。
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Other "2016 in Review" posts from EFF include Protecting Net Neutrality and the Open Internet and DRM vs. Civil Liberties. Click through for a complete list of all EFF "2016 in Review" posts.
其他的回顾主题包括数字版权、公民自由等等。以下是完整的列表(来源https://www.eff.org/,注意是HTTPS):
Chipping Away at National Security Letters: 2016 in Review
Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Wide Web): 2016 in Review
Fighting for Fair Use and Safer Harbors: 2016 in Review
Secure Messaging Takes Some Steps Forward, Some Steps Back: 2016 In Review
Most Young Gig Economy Companies Way Behind On Protecting User Data: 2016 In Review
Dark Skies for International Copyright: 2016 in Review
Congress Gives FOIA a Modest but Important Update For Its 50th Birthday: 2016 in Review
Our Fight to Rein In the CFAA: 2016 in Review
The Patent Troll Abides: 2016 in Review
DRM vs. Civil Liberties: 2016 in Review
The Fight to Rein in NSA Surveillance: 2016 in Review
The Year in Government Hacking: 2016 in Review
What Happened to Unlocking the Box? 2016 in Review
Top 5 Threats to Transparency: 2016 in Review
Technical Developments in Cryptography: 2016 in Review
This Year in U.S. Copyright Policy: 2016 in Review
Open Access Rewards Passionate Curiosity: 2016 in Review
Censorship on Social Media: 2016 in Review
Defending Student Data from Classrooms to the Cloud: 2016 in Review
Protecting Net Neutrality and the Open Internet: 2016 in Review
U.S. Trade Representative Gets Piracy Website Listing Notoriously Wrong
HTTPS Deployment Growing by Leaps and Bounds: 2016 in Review
Defending the Digital Future: 2016 in Review
备注:本研究是EFF(电子前沿基金会)的研究成果。EFF是Electronic Frontier Foundation (Defending your rights in the digital world),声称其宗旨是保护网络空间时代的个人权利。岁末年初发布了23项研究成果,对2016年进行了系统回顾。
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