by Dan
Goodin - Nov 14 2013, 2:40pm
EST
A vastly larger percentage of the world's Web traffic will be encrypted under a near-final recommendation to revise the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that serves as the foundation for all communications between websites and end users.
The proposal, announced
in a letter published Wednesday by an official with the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), comes after documents
leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward
Snowden heightened concerns about government surveillance of
Internet communications. Despite those concerns, websites
operated by Yahoo, the federal government, the site running this
article, and others continue to publish the majority of their
pages in a "plaintext" format that can be read by government
spies or anyone else who has access to the network the traffic
passes over. Last week, cryptographer and security expert Bruce
Schneier urged people to "make surveillance expensive again" by
encrypting
as much Internet data as possible.
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