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Re:How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com witho... by kbenson on Sunday April 07, 2013 @09:50PM (#5509576)
> part of what makes encryption work is that it's computationally hard on today's hardware; when it's not, we move to a different algorithm that is, so the computational cost to using encryption versus not using encryption will always be there.

It's computationally hard to crack. To be useful, it necessarily has to be easier to use than to circumvent.

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Re:How a banner ad for H&R Block appeared on Apple.com witho... by reillyse on Sunday April 07, 2013 @09:58PM (#5509602)
https is no longer "rigid and costly" in a technical sense On a recent website I did my own tests and saw a 2.5% increase in request speed (between http & https). Basically if you aren't a super huge site you aren't going to see any difference. I use https on all my sites, it's just simpler in the long term and you circumvent a lot of problems with security.
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