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 Jul 15 2010, 04:57 PM
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 Bleep Bleep!  Group: Admin Posts: 33,231 Joined: 24-January 04 From: USA Member No.: 3  |
 The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released a new Firefox addon called HTTPS Everywhere that forces Firefox to encrypt your communications via SSL (https://) when communicating with certain sites. This will allow you to transmit data to any of these sites securely and privately.HTTPS Everwhere was originally created to communicate with Google's new encrypted search option, but was further enhanced to force Firefox to use other sites https:// connection. These sites are:
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 Jul 17 2010, 04:25 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 20-July 08 Member No.: 223,995 |
Hi. I hate to be just totally dense here, but I clicked on and saved this add on (?) to my desktop. I am unsure what to do with it at this point. Could you possibly elighten me as to what to do with this? (I also checked the add ons in FireFox, but did not find any mention of this).
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Jul 17 2010, 11:34 PM
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 SPAM Magnet Group: Site Admin Posts: 17,180 Joined: 6-May 04 From: SW Louisiana Member No.: 363 |
It should be listed in your Add-ons list, under the Extensions tab:
 Do you get any type of error message? Have you tried it again? -------------------- |
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Jul 18 2010, 05:37 AM
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 Forum Addict Group: BC Advisor Posts: 2,308 Joined: 6-July 08 Member No.: 220,807 |
When you click on the add-on the XPI file link, Firefox does not ask you to save the file. Firefox asks you if you want to install this add-on.
Here are more links about HTTPS everywhere : Force Firefox to use HTTPS YouTube video for HTTPS Everywhere by TEKHD -------------------- |
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Jul 18 2010, 06:15 AM
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 Forum Regular Group: Members Posts: 174 Joined: 13-June 10 From: New Jersey Member No.: 516,719 |
Totally annoyed my wife by installing this on her laptop; it seems chat is disabled in Facebook when you use a HTTPS connection. The good thing is that HTTPS Everywhere has options control and you can select which applications it secures; deselecting Facebook from the list reestablished her ability to chat in Facebook.
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Jul 18 2010, 04:15 PM
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SPAM Magnet Group: Site Admin Posts: 17,180 Joined: 6-May 04 From: SW Louisiana Member No.: 363 |
QUOTE(boethe @ Jul 18 2010, 06:15 AM)  Totally annoyed my wife ..... Isn't that what husbands are for? 
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Jul 18 2010, 06:05 PM
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 OBleepin Investigator Group: Moderator Posts: 23,136 Joined: 14-July 06 From: Bloomington, IN Member No.: 76,150 |
It appears as though it is still in Beta mode.
QUOTE Today EFF and the Tor Project are launching a public beta . . . http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/06/encry...refox-extension ~ OB This post has been edited by Orange Blossom: Jul 18 2010, 06:06 PM -------------------- Orange Blossom An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure AVAST, SuperAntiSpyware Pro, SpywareBlaster, WinPatrol Plus, Sunbelt Personal Firewall - Full, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, NoScript Firefox ext., Norton noscript |
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Jul 18 2010, 07:58 PM
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SPAM Magnet Group: Site Admin Posts: 17,180 Joined: 6-May 04 From: SW Louisiana Member No.: 363 |
The article was written a month ago; June 17th, 2010.
Can't find a current status on it, anywhere. I've been using it for 4 weeks now, and haven't experienced any problems. -------------------- |
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Jul 18 2010, 11:39 PM
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 Forum Addict Group: BC Advisor Posts: 4,956 Joined: 1-February 08 From: Daly City, CA Member No.: 187,687 |
I hate to say, but I installed it this morning and it slowed down my browsing speed a lot.
Some pages wouldn't load at all. -------------------- |
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Jul 19 2010, 05:19 AM
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 Bleepin Madman Group: BC Advisor Posts: 4,724 Joined: 8-September 08 From: Laurel, Md Member No.: 237,030 |
Id like to add that Google is already using HTTPS as seen via here: https://www.google.com/ It prevents sites from gathering information on where you came from and who referred you their site.
Whats the CPU overhead for running this add on? What Certificates does this Add/On use? Should the Certs be trusted? This post has been edited by cryptodan: Jul 19 2010, 05:21 AM -------------------- Bleepin' Advisor
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Jul 19 2010, 10:14 AM
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Forum Addict Group: BC Advisor Posts: 2,308 Joined: 6-July 08 Member No.: 220,807 |
QUOTE It prevents sites from gathering information on where you came from and who referred you their site. No. You connect to a web site through many middle computers. Any of these computers can see the data being transferred. When you use HTTPS the data is encrypted and only you and Google can see the actual data. It prevents any middle person to eavesdrop the data being transferred between you and the Google site. To find out how many middle servers you have to go through to connect to a web site (e.g. google), type tracert www.google.com in the command prompt. CPU overhead? I think there is no extra CPU overhead. Certificates? This add-on just redirects you to the HTTPS version of the target site (if available). For example, if you type http://www.google.com, it will redirect you to https://www.google.com. The certificates used by the target web sites are checked by the browser itself. The add-on does not use any certificates. This post has been edited by Romeo29: Jul 19 2010, 10:17 AM -------------------- |
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Jul 20 2010, 09:44 PM
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QUOTE(boethe @ Jul 18 2010, 07:15 AM) Totally annoyed my wife by installing this on her laptop; it seems chat is disabled in Facebook when you use a HTTPS connection. The good thing is that HTTPS Everywhere has options control and you can select which applications it secures; deselecting Facebook from the list reestablished her ability to chat in Facebook. Alternatively, you can let it secure Facebook and install Digsby, which is a chat client that you can use for Facebook, yahoo, aim, etc. I've used it since it first came out and it's a great program. -------------------- Chrissy1973 |
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Jul 23 2010, 07:28 AM
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 Distinguished Member Group: Malware Study Hall Senior Posts: 632 Joined: 2-January 09 From: United Kingdom / Australia Member No.: 277,321 |
...BleepingComputer to get a TSL/SSL login page..?
This post has been edited by Casey_boy: Jul 23 2010, 07:30 AM -------------------- Member of the Bleeping Computer A.I.I. early response team!
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Jul 25 2010, 05:18 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 6-March 10 Member No.: 465,684 |
Doesn't IPv6 do something like this?
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Jul 26 2010, 08:39 AM
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Bleep Bleep! Group: Admin Posts: 33,231 Joined: 24-January 04 From: USA Member No.: 3 |
Np IPV6 does not help with security at all.
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