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Mozilla Considers Phasing Out Unencrypted HTTP

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday April 15 2015, @04:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-the-end-of-the-web-as-we-know-it-and-i-feel-fine dept.

Phoronix reports the Mozilla Security Engineering team is planning to make their browser useless for browsing much of the World Wide Web, by deprecating insecure HTTP.

Richard Barnes of Mozilla writes:

In order to encourage web developers to move from HTTP to HTTPS, I would like to propose establishing a deprecation plan for HTTP without security. Broadly speaking, this plan would entail limiting new features to secure contexts, followed by gradually removing legacy features from insecure contexts. Having an overall program for HTTP deprecation makes a clear statement to the web community that the time for plaintext is over -- it tells the world that the new web uses HTTPS, so if you want to use new things, you need to provide security.

See also this document outlining the initial plans.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday April 15 2015, @06:29AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 15 2015, @06:29AM (#170799) Journal

    Your web hoster should be able to help you.

    Of course it will help you. For another $x dollars/year for the certificate (and with heaps more identification data you'll need to provide for that certificate).

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by kadal on Wednesday April 15 2015, @12:47PM

    by kadal (4731) on Wednesday April 15 2015, @12:47PM (#170929)
    Well their Let's Encrypt initiative promises to make it easy and free to do so, doesn't it? https://letsencrypt.org/ [letsencrypt.org]

  • (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Wednesday April 15 2015, @02:55PM

    by urza9814 (3954) on Wednesday April 15 2015, @02:55PM (#170982) Journal

    Your web hoster should be able to help you.

    Of course it will help you. For another $x dollars/year for the certificate (and with heaps more identification data you'll need to provide for that certificate).

    $15/year at most if you only need the main domain (potentially free once LetsEncrypt is up and running). That's probably a fraction of what you're paying for hosting already. And it requires no more identifying information than what you already provided to register the domain in the first place.If you buy through your existing domain registrar you should get a discount and they'll probably do all the configuration work for you. I've got two domains with SSL enabled and so far I haven't paid a dime for the SSL; I don't think I provided anything more than name, email, and city to get them; and they took less than half an hour to fully purchase and configure across multiple servers (my own servers -- would have been even quicker if I was using their hosting.)