Netflix will soon use the HTTPS protocol to authenticate and encrypt customer streams. The move leaves Amazon as one of the most noticeable no-shows to the Web encryption party. Netflix has long encrypted log-in pages and other sensitive parts of its website but has served movie streams over unsecured HTTP connections. The performance hit was stemmed by the some TLS optimizations Netflix engineers developed for high-bandwidth applications. Desktop browser tests will be at scale in the next three months and the job should be completed in the coming year.”]