Twitter announced today that the service will be changing its encryption standards, adopting a more secure protocol known as Perfect Forward Secrecy thats recommended by many experts in the field. The new protocol will be installed on top of standard HTTPS encryption, generating a new key for each encounter and hopefully prevent the passive bulk surveillance by the NSA thats been revealed in recent months. In September, leaks revealed the NSA was capable of passively decrypting SSL traffic, a huge blow for security engineers, so the new measures are necessary to keep Twitters traffic effectively encrypted. The new protocol requires a more complex server architecture, and will also result in slightly slower service — but Twitter believes the extra security will be worth the trouble.
Twitter implements new encryption using Perfect Forward Secrecy
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2013
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