Announcing Free and Automated SSL Certs

Re:Announcing Free and Automated SSL Certs by Jach on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @07:03PM (#13927084)

Now who's spreading misinformation? HTTPS doesn't protect the fact you're reading a blog (the IP of the server will be observed, and typically the server name through the cert itself) and while one can't prove which URLs of the server you visited one can infer based on the amount of traffic sent.

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Re:Announcing Free and Automated SSL Certs by samb1729 on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @07:58PM (#13927423)

There's a pretty significant difference between someone being able to tell, for example, that you visited medium.com, and that same someone being able to tell exactly which blog post you read because the whole request is unencrypted.

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Re:Announcing Free and Automated SSL Certs by LukeShu on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @09:02PM (#13927738)

Beyond just the cert itself, the client will typically announce in plaintext the hostname it is seeking to talk to, as part of SNI.

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