Question Hi,
I too do use IE. But I was thinking if you 'Help' button on the menu of IE and select 'About Internet Explorer' you can see that the Cipher Strength is 128-bit. Is there any special browser that you know with a Cipher strength greater or equal to 256-bit? I'd like to know more about this. THANK YOU!
Answer Hi Henok,
Wasn't sure, found then following:
The browsers compared
Browsers in run the gamut in cipher support. Firefox (v.3.12) has the strongest first cipher showing (TLS, ECC, AES, 256-bit key) followed by Opera (v.9.63). Firefox also has strong defaults, and 34 total ciphers to choose from.
Opera is impressive because it offers 256-bit symmetric ciphers for the first five suggestions (TLS, RSA, AES being the first). However, Opera doesn't offer ECC support at all, which means that Chrome (v1.0) and Internet Explorer (v.8 beta 2), which do offer ECC, could easily be considered tied for second in cipher support if more than first cipher offered were considered.
Both Chrome and Internet Explorer offer TLS, RSA, AES with a 128-bit key first and with a 256-bit key second. In both cases, ECC isn't offered until fifth. Still, Safari runs away with last place with weak first offerings (TLS, RSA, RC4, 128-bit key is offered first and second), frequent MD5 offerings, and no support for ECC, AES, or 256-bit keys.
