Techdesigno in West Orange, NJ wants website owners to know about HTTPS Everywhere initiative. What is this new technology you may ask? Well, it’s a free and open-source browser extension that is used for popular browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Firefox for Android, which is developed collaboratively by The Tor Project and also the Electronic Frontier Foundation or (EFF).
By doing this, it will make websites more secure by using the HTTPS connection instead of the traditional HTTP protocol. The goal is to make all websites secure and safe for the transmission of private and confidential data when traversing over the Internet.
The development of this new software is very important. The HTTPS Everywhere was truly inspired by Google’s increased use of the HTTPS, and even the design to force the usage of HTTPS automatically whenever possible. It is said that the code, in part, is based on the NoScript’s HTTP Strict Transport Security implementation.
When it comes to the SSL Observatory, it is a feature that was introduced in version 2.0.1 that helps analyze the public key certificate to determine if the certificate authorities have been compromised and if the user is vulnerable to the man-in-the-middle attacks.
