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chester_16314
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Mar 09, 2012

SSL Profiles and Strength

Hoping this is the right group within which to pose this question.       When I view my ssl certificate summary in Chrome for instance, it says "your connection to xyz is encrypted with 128...
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nitass
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Mar 11, 2012
i do not have an answer for you but just thinking key length is not an only factor - algorithm has also effect.

 

 

BEAST is one example.

 

 

sol13400: SSL 3.0 / TLS 1.0 "BEAST" vulnerability CVE-2011-3389

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/400/sol13400.html

 

 

just my 2c.