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Secure Websites, What type of encryption

homemade-jam	15 Oct, 2008 - 08:48 AM Post #1
eeeAddict Joined: 17 Mar, 2008 Posts: 1,066 Thanked: 1 times Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	Currently, I'm writing an article about quantum cryptography and I'm providing an introduction to the current RSA methodology which I'm very familiar with, however, what other methods are there out there? Do all websites use RSA? What algorithm do things like OpenSSL use?
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Moonbat	RE: Secure Websites 16 Oct, 2008 - 05:32 PM Post #2
D.I.C Regular Joined: 30 Jun, 2008 Posts: 391 Thanked: 22 times Dream Kudos: 600 My Contributions	The following is a shameless copypasta from this Wikipedia entry about OpenSSL: QUOTE OpenSSL supports a number of different cryptographic algorithms: Ciphers Blowfish, Camellia, DES, RC2, RC4, RC5, IDEA, AES Cryptographic hash functions MD5, MD2, SHA, MDC-2 Public-key cryptography RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, Elliptic curve I hope this answers your question.
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homemade-jam	RE: Secure Websites 17 Oct, 2008 - 01:32 AM Post #3
eeeAddict Joined: 17 Mar, 2008 Posts: 1,066 Thanked: 1 times Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	Cheers, I had had a quick look at the wiki.
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numerical_jerome	RE: Secure Websites Yesterday, 10:31 PM Post #4
New D.I.C Head Joined: 16 Sep, 2007 Posts: 20 Thanked: 1 times My Contributions	U.S. NSA suite B compliance (AES 128, SHA 256) is what many try to shoot for in their server implementations, which is considered "good enough" for U.S. DOD secret. More realistically lower key strength AES is used for session crypto, with RSA only being used for authentication / key exchange. -Jerome
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