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How does https help with the problems Snowden uncovered? You don't run on https, https just does in transit encryption between 2 points of the service architect
by nextts 2y ago
How does https help with the problems Snowden uncovered? You don't run on https, https just does in transit encryption between 2 points of the service architecture. That is why you can (could?) slap cloudflare atop your http only site and get a padlock!
- reactordev 2y agoBecause one of the methods reported was scanning http packets. Easily read without ssl from any hop in the chain. More importantly, he blew the lid off the fact that governments had access to this via the very ISP’s everyone relies on for telecom. By making everything TLS, they can look all they want but they can’t read it. You could do tls offloading at your load balancer but then you have to secure your entire network starting with your isp. For some workloads, this is fine, you aren’t dealing with super sensitive data. For others, you are violating compliance.
- tedd4u 2y agoI'm referring to programs like MUSCULAR [1] and PRISM [2] where NSA was tapping inter- and intra-datacenter traffic of major internet communications platforms like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Facebook etc. At the time, that kind of traffic was not encrypted. It was added in a hurry after these revelations. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM