2016 Saw A Massive Increase In Encrypted Web Traffic

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. Other "2016 in Review" posts from EFF includeProtecting Net Neutrality and the Open Internet and DRM vs. Civil Liberties.Click through for a complete list of all EFF "2016 in Review" posts. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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