In only a few short weeks, Firesheep has captured the attention and interest of hundreds of thousands of people around the world, and has spurred a lot of great discussion. This is the third in a series of posts highlighting and responding to topics I found most interesting.
HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites.
Your browser trusts many certification authorities and sub-authorities quietly, every time you enter an HTTPS website. This add-on for advanced users reveals when certificates are updated, so you can ensure it was a legitimate change.
As a proof of concept we executed a practical attack scenario and successfully created a rogue Certification Authority (CA) certificate trusted by all common web browsers. This certificate allows us to impersonate any website on the Internet, including ba
A small process which will redirect the the required pages to a SSL version of the page.
Nginx "how to" Fast, Secure and Efficient Web Server (nginx.conf) @ Calomel.org - Open Source Research and Reference
