OT: Microsoft does it again?!

I sent an encrypted e-mail to myself (at a different e-mail
address) using Outlook 2000 at work the other day. Upon
checking the received message, I noticed that Outlook was no
longer using 3DES for encryption, in spite of the fact that
I specified that in my security settings. Today I repeated
the experiment at home with Outlook Express and found the
same thing. Both clients are using 40-bit RC2 for
encryption, even though everything indicates that 3DES
should be used. Worse, with Outlook 2000, the only way you
can find this out is to explicitly check the blue padlock
icon on the received message; it does not tell you this when
you encrypt the message. Outlook Express has settings that
allow you to get a warning if the encryption key is shorter
than it should be.

This has not been the case until very recently. Does anyone
have any clues about what's going on here?



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