Mass encryption use, and DPI

[Ian Batten]

On 21 Jun 2009, at 04:50, Peter Fairbrother wrote:

> The HO seem to be (maybe... ) continuing with their attempt to log  
> all comms between everyone, eg those messages passed via facebook or  
> whatever, using DPI - but just how hard would it be for facebook etc  
> to use SSL encryption?
>
> That would be transparent to the user, but just how much would it  
> cost facebook to implement? 0.001%?  1%?

At risk of returning this list to discussing crypto, isn't one of the  
problems going to be, for a seriously high-traffic site like Facebook,  
laying hands on enough entropy to make the server end of the key  
negotiation secure?

ian