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Re: Weak Ciphers
by bangert on Tuesday 22/Nov/2005, @05:13

but why do you do it?

the reason they are being disabled is because it is a bad idea...

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Re: Weak Ciphers
by Fizz on Wednesday 23/Nov/2005, @00:31

I can see that most of the replies to my posting are along a similar line to this. I do however have a very specialised requirement for this feature, and they are not my systems that I will be accessing. I am a security specialist and have been recommending for some time now that all my clients remove support for weaker ciphers from their servers. Occasionally it isn't possible to use stronger ciphers.

Why not do what MS have said that they will do with IE and simply disable support for the weaker ciphers, but not remove it. Then when there is a requirement for weaker ciphers (for whatever the reason) IE can still be used. If KDE remove support for weaker ciphers it will be a reason not to use KDE. Please just disable support by default.

Fizz

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Re: Weak Ciphers
by ssokolow on Monday 28/Nov/2005, @12:11

I have to speak up in favor of keeping weaker ciphers available but disabled. Otherwise, I'd have to keep an older version (probably a statically linked firefox) kicking around because my ISP is the only broadband provider available, "only supports Microsoft products" (blames your client if it complains), and would probably just provide instructions to re-enable weak ciphers when IE 7 rolled around.

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Re: Weak Ciphers
by Terry Tran on Monday 10/Dec/2007, @09:03

Can you please tell me how to disable the weaker ciphers on IE 6.0?

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