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cenhyperion on Sept 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Switch to HTTPS Now, For Free

>Is this referring to typical gzip compression in HTTP

Yes. It's a major vulnerability discovered in the past few months that significantly weakens the crypto.

Website Describing the attack: http://breachattack.com/

Django Blog Post: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2013/aug/06/breach-and-...

barrydahlberg on Sept 26, 2013 [–]

That's not cool. The last thing we need is more things for people to use as reasons for not using HTTPS at all.

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