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the encryption keys, why can't the government just sneak on them?
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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The other 2 commenters are wrong. URLs as they appear in your web browser are NOT encrypted when sent over https protocols.
The only data that is encrypted is POST data, and ONLY if it is sent over HTTPS.
So for example, a website login page crafts a URL like https://some.example.com/login?sessionID=12345678 and when you log in to the site extra parameters like Username and Password are sent via POST data, then anyone listening to your web traffic (like the NSA or your neighbor with wireshark) will br able to see the website and the sessionID, but not the login details as they will only show up encrypted.
However, if the site is ran by idiots who pass the data in the URL like this https://some.example.com/login?sessionID=12345678&username=Homer&password=Simpson, then ANYONE listeneing would have your credentials.