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Sri Gupta wrote: |
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>>unless you have some special hardware for these algorithms (which |
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>>'standard' PCs do not have), |
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>>then yes IDEA is approx twice as fast then 3DES (in any case, including SSL) |
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>This is what AES (Rijndael) is for. IDEA is patented and proprietary. AES is |
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>just as fast, supports keylength up to 256 bit, and is wide open for |
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>implementation because of its selection as the AES standard. It's also |
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>supported as an SSL cipher. |
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>-Sri |
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I heard of AES and I think I love it:) Only I am not sure of browser |
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support. |
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Mozilla support AES just fine, but I don't know what's the ealiest |
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version of IE supporting this cipher. My users use IE 5.01 and above, I |
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must make sure of it. |
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I posted questions several times about IE's support over AES to |
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microsoft.public.* newsgroups, it seems they don't give a shit of the |
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problem! |
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My OP on microsoft newsgroups on Oct 24: |
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> Hello. Just read a bit about AES on SSL 3.0. |
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> Before I try it on my own web server, I must make sure Internet |
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> Explorer supports it. Surprisingly, I cannot google it out. Search |
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> terms like "Internet Explorer AES" gives unrelated articles. |
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> Can any one point me a brief artcile tells me what SSL cipher are |
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> supported by each version of Internet Explorer? More sepecificly, I am |
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> interested to know what cipher is supported by Internet Explorer 5.5 |
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> but not IE 5.0. |
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> What is the earliest version of IE supporting 256-bit AES? |
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