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PostSubject: Twitter tightens security against NSA snooping   Twitter tightens security against NSA snooping Icon_minitimeSun Nov 24, 2013 8:00 pm

Twitter has implemented new security measures that should make it much more difficult for anyone to eavesdrop on communications between its servers and users, and is calling on other Internet companies to follow its lead.

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The company has implemented “perfect forward secrecy” on its web and mobile platforms, it said Friday. The technology should make it impossible for an organization to eavesdrop on encrypted traffic today and decrypt it at some point in the future.

At present, the encryption between a user and the server is based around a secret key held on the server. The data exchange cannot be read but it can be recorded in its encrypted form. Because of the way the encryption works, it’s possible to decrypt the data at some point in the future should the server’s secret key ever be obtained.

More:  http://www.pcworld.com/article/2066660/twitter-tightens-security-against-nsa-snooping.html
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