Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I just visited a random website that uses HTTPS, and it seems all the 
> certificates are RSA 2,048 bits. Which is interesting, because the 
> encryption itself is just RC4 (128 bits). And this is "high-grade 
> encryption"??

  Number of bits between different encryption algorithms is not comparable.

  For example AES-256 is currently thought to be unbreakable while RSA-512
is not, even though the latter uses twice as many bits.

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