Will IE6 negotiate a 256 bit AES SSL connection if the server is capable?
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Possibly, I can't work out for sure yet, but what I can tell you is AES256 appears to be restricted by US Export restrictions on high-security cryptography, and for this reason, some platforms may lack this capacity.
Also, upon further searching, msdn pages ( such as this one ) seem to point to AES support ( period! ) being only available since Vista / IE7.
No news yet whether or not MS decided to backport it, but it looks dubious.
niXar : I seriously doubt that; Firefox does AES256.Kent Fredric : Yes, but so do many other Open-source products. This is an example of why debian had their own "non-US" branch. -
Sometimes there is just a plain and simple way of finding out. If you look at the internet explorer help > about internet explorer, it will tell you the max cipher bits that it supports, and on IE6 its 128.
Kent Fredric : Yeah. I'm running linux :D. Don't tell anybody, but were using 2048 and greater encryption >_> <_<
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