Communication from broker to terminal encryption/security
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Hi there.
I was browsing around and from https://www.metatrader5.com/en/terminal/help/start_advanced/security I found that the communication from the terminal on my PC to the broker is encrypted using a 128-bit SSL encryption. I really hope that this is outdated information, since 128 bit keys are outdated a long time ago and SSL has been broken more than ten years ago. Does anybody have more info on this?
And also you apparently can upgrade to "Extended Authentication" (https://www.metatrader5.com/en/terminal/help/start_advanced/extended_authorization) and generate your own certificate. A little bit further down however you see that it uses the RSA-SHA1 algorithm which was also already broken twenty years ago. Am I misunderstanding something here or can any newbie hacker decrypt what I send to my broker via the terminal?
Cheers, tandoori