Tagged: HTTP Secure

How to Deploy HTTPS Correctly | Electronic Frontier Foundation

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How to Deploy HTTPS Correctly | Electronic Frontier Foundation. This is important for web developers and managers to understand. Many times I have been told that using HTTPS is too CPU intensive and that’s why it isn’t done. Adam Langley said:

In order to do this we had to deploy no additional machines and no special hardware. On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead. Many people believe that SSL takes a lot of CPU time and we hope the above numbers (public for the first time) will help to dispel that. [emphasis in original]

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Configure Chrome settings to work with Tor on Mac OSX? – Google Chrome Help

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This was a bit tricky. I used the basic settings from skittixch but had to make a few minor changes.

**solved***

  1. Download and install the vidalia bundle.
  2. Open Chrome and click the wrench button, go to under the hood and click “Change Proxy Settings.”
  3. System preferences will open, and you’ll be in the “proxies” tab of your network settings.
  4. Select “Web Proxy (HTTP)”.
  5. The web proxy server is “Localhost” (without quotes), and the port is 8118.
  6. Click ok
  7. Go to https://check.torproject.org/ to see if you’re on the tor network.

However I had to change step 4. In addition to doing Step 4 I had to also checkmark “Secure Web Proxy (HTTPS) and use the same Localhost and 8118 port. Then I clicked on ok and checked at the URL in step 7.

Works like a charm!

via Configure Chrome settings to work with Tor on Mac OSX? – Google Chrome Help.

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