Comment Re:One of the advantages of Linux (Score 2) 433
However, I agree with you. Let RH try it out. It's not like they can't revert if they find that it was a bad choice. If we wanted all distros to be the same, we'd run windows instead.
Other web sites have implemented HTTPS with forward secrecy before [...] but it hasn’t yet been rolled out on a site of Google’s scale. Some sites have publicly resisted implementing forward secrecy because it is more CPU intensive than standard HTTP or HTTPS. In order to address that problem, Google made improvements to the open source OpenSSL library, and has incorporated those changes into the library for anybody to use.
It happened when people couldn’t get copies of Captain America #25. It’s happening now with Miracleman, one of the more popular torrents out there, because it can’t be brought back into print. It’s happening in countries where legitimate versions aren’t available yet, if ever — witness fan-subbed manga and anime, or Doctor Who episodes. It’s happening more and more as publishers try to extract every last dime they can out of the existing fan base, placing themselves on the upper half of a Laffer curve.
Numeric stability is probably not all that important when you're guessing.