Re: 128 bit encryption

From: Ulrich K. Boche (boche@de.ibm.com)
Date: 06/01/02 

From: "Ulrich K. Boche" <boche@de.ibm.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 12:41:21 +0200

tin can wrote:
>
> Easy question for the participants of this forum.
>
> What is the lowest(oldest) version/level of IE explorer and Netscape
> Navigator that support 128 bit SSL encryption ?

This is not an easy question at all. Even very old versions of
Netscape and IE supported 128-bit encryption, if the browser was
downloaded within the USA and Canada. Outside these countries, only
the "export" version of these browsers was available which only
supported 56-bit encryption as a maximum. So there were even versions
of Netscape 3 and IE 4 that supported 128-bit encryption.

After 09/2000, the export rules were relaxed and, with the exception
of a few countries, browsers supporting 128-bit encryption can be
downloaded by almost everybody from both Microsoft and Netscape.

If I remember correctly, the first version of Netscape that was fully
available in 128-bit SSL was 4.76. For IE, I believe it was 5.01.
You'll be on the safe side with 5.5. 

-- 
Ulrich Boche
IBM eServer Sales Technical Support (z/OS + e-Business Security)

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