Google turns on HTTPS as standard
Google has announced that it is to standardise around HTTPS for its Gmail service. Sam Schillace, Gmail engineering director, said in a blog post that the company is turning on HTTPS as standard on the service to encrypt messages being sent in and out of its servers.
"We initially left the choice of using it up to you because there's a downside: https can make your mail slower, since encrypted data doesn't travel across the web as quickly as unencrypted data," he said.
"Over the last few months, we've been researching the security/latency tradeoff and decided that turning HTTPS on for everyone was the right thing to do. We are currently rolling out default HTTPS for everyone."
