In: Computer Science
a)What are the disadvantages of HTTPS?(create bullets list for disadvantages )
b)Should all web traffic be required to use HTTPS?why or why not?
Q1.) a.) Looking over for HTTPS, it is nothing just HTTP with SSL (Secure Socket Layer), that is, adding security to any site, which may be like adding security to your cache, cookies, or passwords, credentials, credit cards information, etc.
The 'S' of HTTPS is just like security guards in front of a bank. Whom we have to pay at regular intervals, their actions, their qualities, etc. Similarly, the following are the disadvantages of adding an 'S' in HTTP:-
These are just the cost related types of disadvantages, however, there are various other aspects, few of them are as follows:-
b.) Since everything comes with their pros and cons, however, in my opinion, security has no alternatives, in any way possible, other than you stop using the internet. Following are the arguments that I want to pose in:-
However, if the any site doesn't deal with any sort of crucial data, the extra 'S', has no significant use, as in, it is not worth of putting scarecrow in a barren land.