EditorAccording to the new reports, Google is now encrypting 77 percent of its total traffic. This is a massive gain over its previous percentage of 52 percent back in 2013. The data was released in the Google’s Transparency report. However, this data excludes YouTube figures. The company said it is looking forward to achieve 100 percent encryption rate.
Since 2014, Google has been protecting its traffic with HTTPS as explained by the company in its report, “relies on encryption—SSL or TLS—to secure the connection and offers protection against eavesdroppers, man-in-the-middle attacks, and hijackers who attempt to spoof a trusted website.”
The company said, “We are working to implement HTTPS across all of our products. We continue to work through the technical barriers that make it more difficult to support encryption on some of our products.”
Google’s graph show that the 83 percent of the maps traffic and 100 percent drive traffic is currently encrypted with HTTPS. Google said that percentage of encryption varies from country to country, “due to a variety of factors, including the types of devices in use in that country, as well as the availability of software that can support modern TLS.” The first in the rank is Mexico with 86 percent encrypted Google traffic, 2nd is Brazil with 84 percent, followed by U.K., India and Japan at third place with 82 percent. The U.S. is 9th in the list with 72 percent encrypted traffic.
Google said in the report, “vast majority of unencrypted end user traffic comes from mobile devices, largely because some older devices cannot support modern encryption, standards, or protocols. Unfortunately, these devices may no longer be updated and may never support encryption.”
Editorial Staff
