The cr.yp.to microblog: 2012.03.25 05:03:44

2012.03.25 05:03:44 (183750991072591873) from Daniel J. Bernstein, replying to "Jacob Appelbaum (@ioerror)" (183626608383500288):

@ioerror @zooko @agl__ Are you sure they're being stupid? Are you sure they aren't having SSL speed problems? (Why doesn't Google use 2048?)

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2012.02.28 18:26:48 (174546102278815745) from "zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓 (@zooko)":

“If you stop reading now you only need to remember one thing: SSL/TLS is not computationally expensive any more.” Ibid

2012.02.29 03:11:59 (174678267683540993) from Daniel J. Bernstein, replying to "zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓 (@zooko)" (174546102278815745):

@zooko @agl__ If SSL isn't expensive, why does https://sourceforge.net/develop go out of its way to switch to HTTP? https://sourceforge.net/account works fine.

2012.03.24 19:49:29 (183626608383500288) from "Jacob Appelbaum (@ioerror)":

@hashbreaker @zooko @agl__ github does the same for file downloads - it's absolutely embarrassingly stupid on their part.