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I was just trying this out on some different sites. www.amazon.com got 2/5. I tried www.whitehouse.gov and it didn't work. I went to check it and it appears their certs aren't set up properly on the CDN they are using (akamai.net). Embarrassing!


They're fine. It's more they've made the decision to NOT force all their visitors to SSL.


Also, most of the time, sites without a perfect forward secrecy policy are sites intended to be accessed by a very wide crowd, including people still running IE6 (and bellow). Sometimes you just can't push the new technologies fast enough.




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