24 Jul
2008
24 Jul
'08
7:56 p.m.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
The round trip issue affects latency, which in turn affects perceived responsiveness. This is quite definitely the reason why gmail doesn't always use https (though it, unlike some other web sites, doesn't refuse to use it).
Interestingly enough, Google just added a feature to GMail to force secure connections: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/07/force-gmail-to-use-secure-connectio... Jeff