To recap, encryption hides the content of the communication from other eyes, by placing the website communication into a box that your device can open. Encryption has nothing to do with the safety of that communication (as it can contain a virus). Encryption does not have anything to do with protecting your identity, because your device’s ID is still left visible.
So just how much protection does encryption provide to the privacy of your communication content? Well, it depends.
In normal course, prying eyes cannot read the encrypted data.
However, properly motivated prying eyes can take the time, effort and expense to break the encryption, if they want to see.
That said, then the answer to protecting encrypted communications, is to keep your device IDs unknown, so prying eyes would have not associate that communication with you, and they would not have any motivation to try to decode it.
Do that for all communications and privacy is achieved. How, read on.
