[GSoC] Improving Snakes on a Tor

Jim Jimmymac at copper.net
Sat May 15 15:16:15 UTC 2010



Anders Andersson wrote:
>>> The way
>>> to do better at that one is to teach users and service providers about
>>> end-to-end authentication and encryption.
>> From what I've seen I don't think there is any realistic hope for any
>> significant number of web pages to be served with end-to-end encryption (not
>> sure what your reference is to end-to-end authentication) in the foreseeable
>> future.
>>
>> Jim
> 
> I take it that you don't consider HTTPS to be end-to-end encryption
> then? Because I don't see why it would be unlikely for at least
> sensitive websites to switch to HTTPS.

Of course HTTPS is end-to-end encryption!  And, of course, it is already 
used some.  We apparently have different assements of what the future 
holds and how quickly.  Time will tell ...

Cheers,
Jim
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