> I meant USGOV protects USGOV. (Although not USGOV employees per
     se...)
     > Cybersecurity wise USGOV probably doesn't/hardly need HTTPS,
     > depending on the abilities of adversaries.
             Of course. US govt using https in their stupid propaganda
             websites is irrelant. What is weird is that some US govt
             employee bothered to advertise it here. Is he clueless?
             Was he trolling?

   I wasn't trolling. I've been a member of this list, and paying close
   attention to the field, since well before I joined the US government
   (which happened back in May).
   Before this, I worked for 5 years at a relatively adversarial
   non-profit group focused on government transparency, called the
   Sunlight Foundation.
   I also did personal work on furthering encryption and drawing attention
   to government surveillance:
   [1]https://konklone.com/post/switch-to-https-now-for-free
   [2]https://konklone.com/post/the-door-to-the-fisa-court
   [3]https://twitter.com/fisacourt
   I still work on them, and stuff like it, in my personal capacity. I'm
   on the record in all kinds of places, in my personal capacity,
   supporting what Edward Snowden did and pushing for technical changes
   and policy reform to curtail surveillance.
   I completely expect (and find welcome and appropriate) high levels of
   skepticism for anything the US government does. All I can tell you is
   where I'm coming from, and the actions my team is taking.
   In my government capacity, when [4]https://letsencrypt.org is
   operational next year, I hope to get as many .gov domains to use their
   certificates as I can.
   -- Eric
   --
   [5]konklone.com | [6]@konklone

References

   1. https://konklone.com/post/switch-to-https-now-for-free
   2. https://konklone.com/post/the-door-to-the-fisa-court
   3. https://twitter.com/fisacourt
   4. https://letsencrypt.org/
   5. https://konklone.com/
   6. https://twitter.com/konklone