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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Google has launched a new transparency report [theregister.co.uk] that will track the percentage of traffic that is encrypted using HTTPS:

Call it another shot in Crypto Wars 2: Google has launched a transparency report specifically to track the progress of the Internet's encryption efforts. The aim is in support of the general push to have encryption available everywhere.

As [Google's] security blog post [googleblog.com] explains, even within the Google universe HTTPS is far short of 100 per cent of traffic. Excluding YouTube traffic, but with Gmail, Drive, Search and increasingly Blogger and advertising traffic over HTTPs, only 75 per cent of what's served from Google domains is currently encrypted. Google will be updating that reporting each week, the company says.

The second plank of the strategy is looking at Certificate Transparency: a public search interface letting users check that a certificate is valid and is being used correctly.

From the blog post:

Today we are launching a new section of our Transparency Report [google.com] to track the progress of encryption efforts—both at Google and on some of the web's most trafficked sites. Our aim with this project is to hold ourselves accountable and encourage others to encrypt so we can make the web even safer for everyone.

Google's data shows an increase in HTTPS traffic from about 50% in January 2014 to just over 75% today.

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