Google is going to the encrypted connection of services, such as Gmail, Docs and Google+ as standard, with ‘forward secrecy’. Therefore, the hackers become more difficult to messages that they intercept in the future to decipher.
Websites that have a https session without forward secrecy provision, according to Google open the possibility that hackers encrypted data that they intercept, in the future still crack. Computers are much faster than now, says Google. Forward secrecy would be any cracking should occur. The technique has the crack of a single private key will only affect the decryption of the data with the corresponding key is encrypted. It is impossible to also previous keys to distract from the cracking and other intercepted data to decrypt. For forward secrecy is necessary, among other that the keys are temporarily stored, and Google will use in the exchange elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman RSA. Currently support Firefox, Internet Explorer and Googles own Chrome browser this latest functionality, although IE is still not the combination of elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman and RC4 supports.
Services such as Gmail, Docs, Google+ and Google Search are now standard use of forward secrecy. The modification follows after a series of earlier security measures of Google. Since October, more logged in users a standard search on the internet using an encrypted connection. To man-in-the-middle attacks are prevented, so that no third parties searches can be intercepted. Also, earlier services like Gmail and Docs default-ssl-support.
