Firefox 37 Debuts With Opportunistic Encryption, Security Fixes

Posted by red5 on Apr 1, 2015 8:04 AM EDT
eWEEK; By Sean Michael Kerner
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"Opportunistic encryption is meant to improve the transport properties of legacy HTTP resources that would otherwise be carried in clear text," Patrick McManus, platform engineer at Mozilla, told eWEEK. "Any TLS [Transport Layer Security] certificate, including self-signed ones, may be used with opportunistic encryption because it does not enforce authentication. Servers must run either HTTP/2 or SPDY/3.1."

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