ebay encryption?

[William Maddox]

eBay had a *major* outage last night for several
hours,
beginning around 7:30PM. Several of my snipes failed
with strange error reports. I also noticed that these
auctions had been extended for another day after eBay
had come back up.  For several hours, eBay was 
artially functional, but some categories were missing,
and "My Ebay" was reporting that much information was
unavailable.  A status notice on eBay claimed there
had been a power failure at an eBay datacenter.

--Bill