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marcinzm on March 31, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite...

Isn't 128-bit AES and SHA-1 fairly weak encryption nowadays?

ThePowerOfFuet on March 31, 2020 | [–]

128-bit AES is not "weak" by any definition of the term.

SHA-1 is deprecated but it's good enough for this application for the near future.

upofadown on March 31, 2020 | [–]

>128-bit AES

Perfectly fine...

>SHA-1

You missed the important bit:

>SHA-1 HMAC

Also perfectly fine...

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