On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is that true?  I thought the certificate was only used to verify that the
> server was the actual one it claimed to be.  The encryption is something
> different.

It sure is.  See all the discussion in the news lately about perfect
forward secrecy and the possibility that NSA has access to various
Internet providers' private keys for an example of why this is bad.

-T.C.

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