-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2012-13758 2012-12-12 22:16:08 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name : mozilla-https-everywhere Product : Fedora EPEL 5 Version : 3.1 Release : 1.el5 URL : https://eff.org/https-everywhere Summary : HTTPS/HSTS enforcement extension for Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey Description : HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites.

Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site.

The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information:

- Hacky solution to a very nasty bug in which <securecookie> directives would cause cookies to be flagged as secure even if they were set from HTTP origins! https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/7491 https://mail1.eff.org/pipermail/https-everywhere-rules/2012-November/001397.... - Fixes: Akamai, Biomed central, BYU, Cachefly / Topix, DuckDuckGo, Focus.de, Fortum, Mashable, Mail.ru, MayFirst/People Link, MIT, Rackspace, Salsa Labs, SurveyMonkey, Tumblr - Disable: Adtech.de, AllthingsD American Public Media, Dafont, MediaFire, Verizon, vk.com, Wired, Conde Nast - Offer the SSL Observatory popup to a larger cohort of users - Observatory-only translations into Hebrew and Croatian --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use su -c 'yum update mozilla-https-everywhere' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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