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Netflix announced that it has implemented efficient HTTPS encryption for its video streams. To this point, the company has used only HTTPS to protect user information.

Netflix has been reluctant to adopt HTTPS for its video streams so far because delivering video is already a bandwidth-heavy task, and adding encryption on top of that risked adding too much overhead. To solve this problem, the company searched for the ideal cipher and its fastest implementation.