Showing posts with label HTTPS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HTTPS. Show all posts
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Firefox gets strict about enforcement of HTTPS protection
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| Beta version mandates a secure channel before connecting to sensitive sites. |
Developers of Mozilla's Firefox browser are experimenting with a new security feature that connects to a specified set of websites only when presented with a cryptographic certificate validating the connection is secure.
A beta version of the open-source browser contains a list of sites known to deploy the HTTP Strict Transport Security mechanism that requires a browser to use the secure sockets layer or transport layer security protocols when communicating. HSTS is designed to provide an additional layer of security by mandating the channel is encrypted and the server has been authenticated using strong cryptography.
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