Re: 128 Bit Encryption

From: Jason Garms [MS] (jasong@microsoft.com)
Date: 11/07/02 

From: "Jason Garms [MS]" <jasong@microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 21:23:45 -0800

Unfortunately for the most part, Bill is right! :-)
Specifically about the comment that these are just trying
to tell you that someone of significance is happening, and
if you haven't installed new software, then you might want
to be concerned.

A lot of this came from us trying to move more and more
stuff out of privileged context on the system. We made a
big push to move lots of WMI provider stuff out of
localsystem into less privileged contexts. We did a lot of
reviews over core WMI providers that were left in the
system that still needed to run in priviledged context.
However, we started to throw these messages to alert that
there were still providers running in privileged context.
The message is not ideal, and is mostly due to the fact
that on our system right now, there's no clean way to
differentiate between debugging or "don't worry about me
unless you're having trouble" messages, and more important
messages. More specifically, as a component developer,
where do you throw these messages so there there when you
need them, but out of the way and not worrying people.

Net-net: in this case below, don't worry about them. In
the future the errors will continue to get better, and
this is just a transition. Sorry for the alarm. :-)

cheers,
-jasong

Jason Garms
Security Architecture Team
Security Business Unit
Microsoft Corporation

>-----Original Message-----
>So--you just did a full install of IE6? On what OS?
>
>I'm assuming you had 56 bit before the install of IE6?
>
>You'd probably get better advice in an IE related group.
>
>I could imagine: uninstalling IE6 (presuming this will
revert to what you
>had before) then upgrading to 128 bit in the previous
version--using the
>High Encryption Pack?
>
>Then re-running the IE6 install.
>
>I could also imagine following the advice here:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;Q261328
>
>about how to go from 0 bit cipher strength to 128, if you
are running a 9.x
>OS.
>
>"Nic" <nicfarra@clear.net.nz> wrote in message
>news:182401c285f6$05de50e0$35ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA11...
>> I have just downloaded IEv6 from the Microsoft website.
>> Currently the cipher strength is displayed as 56 Bit.
The
>> FAQs have been of little help so far. Is there a
>> straightforward way to enable 128 Bit encryption?
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Nic
>
>
>.
>

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