[ALUG] Chrome 68 and HTTPS

[Tim Schofield]

At least they have gone back on their threat to censor the web by
breaking any http:// sites. A victory for common sense I think.

Tim

On 9 July 2018 at 15:35, Andreas Tauscher via Linux
<linux at mail.habari.co.tz> wrote:
> 27. July version 68 of the chrome browser is released. Most users will
> get this update automatically.
> It contains one big change:
> Any page which is not HTTPS will be marked by the browser as insecure.
>
> Left from the url is then written in grey "Not secure"
> In the moment something is entered in a form on such a page the "Not
> secure" becomes red.
>
> With chrome 70 expected in September HTTPS pages will not longer be
> marked in green with "Secure". I exchange the "Not secure" notification
> for HTTP pages might become permanent red.
>
> BTW: Chrome and Firefox already since a while don't load any http://
> URLs included in a https:// page and google is using if a page is https
> or not to calculate the page ranking.
>
> Maybe would be a nice topic for one of the next trainings how to install
> SSL certificates with Let's Encrypt.
> What needs to be changed, how to disable SSLv2, TLS1, disable obsolete
> and insecure ciphers, how to check in which browsers the page will work
> etc...
>
> Andreas
>
>
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