On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 3:05 AM, Steven M. Bellovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The round trip issue affects latency, which in turn affects perceived > responsiveness. This is quite definitely the reason why gmail doesn't > always use https (though it, unlike some other web sites, doesn't > refuse to use it).
Interestingly enough, Google just added a feature to GMail to force secure connections: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/07/force-gmail-to-use-secure-connection.html Jeff
