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Google Starts Upgrading Its SSL Certificates To 2048-bit Keys

Posted by Soulskill on from the go-big-or-go-home dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google today announced it has already started upgrading all of its SSL certificates to 2048-bit keys. The goal is to beef up the encryption on the connections made to its services. Google says the upgrade, which includes the root certificate that the company uses to sign all of its SSL certificates, will be completed 'in the next few months.' Previously, however, Google was more specific and said it was aiming to finish the process by the end of 2013."

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  1. Re:Completely useless... by telchine · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's called private key, you cretin. Now, go smoke some weed and don't bother the grown-ups will you?

    Let me draw you a picture...

    Me <---- (SSL) ----> Google ---- (SSL) ----> NSA

  2. Re:Older PCs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you really worry about SSL key lengths affecting your system performance. You probably should buy a new one.

  3. 2048 bytes? Pure blinkered American-centric bias.. by Dogtanian · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Yanks are so used to accessing Google on their bloated 2K TS-1000s, that they seem to have forgetten that those of us with the original British 1K ZX81 won't be able to access their website securely any more.

    I bet those tossers are so spoiled they have blackjack and hookers, and 16K rampacks on their servers. Hope someone wobbles them (*) and they lose all their data. Gits.

    (*) The rampacks, I mean. I've no idea what wobbling a hooker would do to your data.

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  4. Re:Doesn't need to... by steveb3210 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Most of the time when you hear that it takes "thousands of years" to factor a prime number

    Really? I can factor most primes in my head.. Semiprimes would be a different story...