On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Aryeh Gregor
<Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
Anyway, this is all doable in principle, yes. It will probably impose
no significant processing overhead, CPUs are powerful enough today
that TLS shouldn't be a big deal. (I recall hearing that Google
noticed no increase in CPU usage after enabling TLS by default for
Gmail.) But it's not necessarily trivial to set up. My impression is
that the ops have "get proper TLS working" somewhere fairly low on
their priority list.
I for one only use
secure.wikimedia.org; I would like to urge as a
general course that the Foundation switch to a HTTPS by default
strategy...
It was necessary for Gmail; it's a really good idea for WMF.
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com