AES-CBC is going the way of the dodo
Apr 21, 2017Vlad Krasnov
Summary
This post details the significant decline in the use of AES-CBC cipher suites on Cloudflare's network, marking a milestone where more secure alternatives like AES-GCM and ChaCha20-Poly1305 have surpassed it. It also highlights the increasing adoption of ECDSA over RSA for digital signatures and the continued dominance of Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS), indicating a positive trend towards safer and faster cryptography on the web.
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