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gscott on Nov 1, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Encrypted web traffic now exceeds 90%

This is good to keep out moderate bad guys from your data. But the not so much for the NSA. The NSA already captures traffic end to end including the key negotiation and can break the rest https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/how-t...

philipkglass on Nov 1, 2019 | [–]

Even when it was first discovered, only 8.4% of the top million web sites were estimated to be vulnerable to the Logjam attack:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/https...

Now I would expect the number to be much closer to 0%.

birdyrooster on Nov 1, 2019 | [–]

That was for 1024-bit SSL keys with specific primes, going to 2048-bit will not scale with $11B

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