[Cryptography] Senate Judiciary "Going Dark" https site is untrusted!

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Wed Jul 8 19:42:30 EDT 2015


On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Tom Mitchell wrote:

> I also attempted to connect to https://www.senate.gov/ and recieved an 
> error that https cannot be processed.   That is an additional red flag.

Another data point (Firefox 39.0, from Australia):

 The submitted https request was not able to be completed at this time.
 Please retry your request using http. This may require disabling some browser based plug-ins. 

HTTP got me a page, but not being American I wouldn't know what it's 
supposed to look like.

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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer"
   "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of
roughly a factor of two per year." -- G Moore, Electronics, Vol 38 No 8, 1965


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