Michael Nottebrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> David Syphers schrieb:
>> On Friday 06 January 2006 11:23 am, Heino Tiedemann wrote:
>> 
>>>Hi there,
>>>
>>>please take a look here with firefox and konqueror and tell me if you
>>>have differences: <https://www.fortify.net/sslcheck.html>
>>>
>>>To mee this are the facts:
>>>Firefox: "AES cipher, 256-bit key"
>>>Konqueror: "RC4 cipher, 128-bit key"
>>>
>>>I'd like to tune up Konqueror, to a 256 bit encryption....
>> 
>> 
>> Go to Konqueror configuration, crypto. A lot of different encryption methods 
>> are supported, including AES256. That website is just picking one (not sure 
>> how). You can turn off ones you don't want to use. For example, if I turn 
>> off 
>> SSLv2 and RC4 in SSLv3, that website shows triple DES 168. Presumably you 
>> could turn off everything but AES256 if you just want that.
>
> The minimal required modification of the defaults to make it pick
> AES-256 for that particular site is unchecking RC4-MD5 (128 of 128 bits)
> and DES-CBC3-MD5 (168 of 168 bits) in the SSLv2 ciphers list and RC4-MD5
> (128 of 128 bits), RC4-SHA (128 of 128 bits) and DES-CBC3-SHA (168 of
> 168 bits) in the SSLv3 ciphers list.

Exactly.

My online bank uses the RC4-MD5 (128 of 128 bits) SSLv3 cipher, so it
is not very usefull to me, to uncheck it.

> I don't really know by which criteria the ciphers are selected from the
> available list, you'd probably need to ask openssl folks about that.

Before you going to do that take a look to something I found: 
It is a Bug (seems to be fixed in KDE 3.5)
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86332
(I didn't read all)

Heino




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