Ward has deep concern about the governance and implementation of HTTPS. I would like to see those concerns written in this FedWiki site.
The principal motivations for HTTPS are authentication of the accessed website and protection of the privacy and integrity of the exchanged data while it is in transit. It protects against man-in-the-middle attacks, and the bidirectional block cipher encryption of communications between a client and server protects the communications against eavesdropping and tampering.[4][5] The authentication aspect of HTTPS requires a trusted third party to sign server-side digital certificates.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTPS
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