The newest version of HTTPS’s encryption conceals what website internet users are viewing — which is why China’s censors blocked it.
Last year, computer scientist Amir Houmansadr was writing a paper about the new version of TLS, the underlying encryption mechanism for HTTPS, which is used by the majority of websites to protect internet users’ data. Houmansadr, an associate professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst, issued a sharp warning: be quick and quiet about the adoption of the newest encryption method or else censors in repressive countries across the world will start blocking it. If the new version was censore
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