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Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (S-HTTP) is an obsolete alternative to HTTPS for encrypting web communications over the Internet. It was developed by Eric Rescorla and Allan M. Schiffman at Enterprise Integration Technologies in 1994 and published in 1999 as . Netscape's dominance of the browser market led to HTTPS becoming the de facto method for securing web communications.

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Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol (S-HTTP) is an obsolete alternative to HTTPS for encrypting web communications over the Internet. It was developed by Eric Rescorla and Allan M. Schiffman at Enterprise Integration Technologies in 1994 and published in 1999 as . Netscape's dominance of the browser market led to HTTPS becoming the de facto method for securing web communications.

Key claims

  1. publication date: 1999 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the publication date is "1999". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378064586

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.