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Re: mac os x safari ssl cipher suite

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Sun Aug 13 22:10:20 2006

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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:47:58 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: Joe Cooley <joe.cooley@gmail.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <459b3dc0608110726s6f065570t8bf2184d31e56c6d@mail.gmail.com>

     --
Joe Cooley wrote:
 > Safari only seems to support DES, 3DES, and RC4
 > ciphers.  My question is this: should I be concerned
 > about privacy when *_RC4_* is the negotiated suite,

Nothing wrong with RC4, when used correctly.  Using it
correctly turned out to be harder than we originally
thought - but SSL does use it correctly.


     --digsig
          James A. Donald
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      8PORO+zKpxIcfbxPbIn6QJCWObzpBeAHXq1ayeRH
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