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I was wondering if Internet Explorer 7 in Windows XP Professional will be upgraded to support encryption standards beyond 128 cipher strength. Windows Vista Internet Explorer supports stronger cipher strength as well as Mozilla Firefox 2.0.x. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.x can support 256 bit AES and 168 bit cipher strengths. I think Windows Vista Internet Explorer can also support the ...

IE relies on SCHANNEL.DLL (the the operating system's cryptography engine) for SSL/TLS. Supported symmetric algorithms in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 are documented in http://technet2.microsoft.com/window...dfbea1033.m spx . Windows Vista and Server 2008 add AES and ECC ciphers. Details at http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window...ad9861033.m spx . There are no plans to add...

Thank you for the information, Steve. My concern for Microsoft is that with Mozilla Firefox gathering more market share with their web browser because of its security and the nice ability to customize Firefox with so many extensions, how can Microsoft hope to counter Firefox if even with Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition and of course Wndows XP, a user can have 256 AES ...