Safari can’t establish a secure connection to the server www.google.com If I try to navigate to any of the following pages:


http://google.com/reader
https://encrypted.google.com/


I get an error message in Safari saying:


  Safari can't open the page "https://encrypted.google.com/" because
  Safari can’t establish a secure connection to the server
  "encrypted.google.com"


I also find that on the Gmail page many images are missing and when I try to go the image location I see the same error as above. Here's a pic of the missing images:



In chrome I have the same issue but with a different error as follows:


  Error 107 (net::ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR): SSL protocol error.


I am not using a proxy and this behaviour has started recently for seemingly no apparent reason although I did get a new router about 2 weeks ago. Why am I experiencing  these problems?
The issue was a temporary change and you should have an excellent chance of secure browsing from the main google entry page and all shipping versions of Safari. 


https://www.google.com


Things could change next month, but lately google has served up rock solid https using certificate trust chains that Apple has included in all OS they ship.