Re: [exim] exim 4.43 and GnuTLS: How to control cipher negot…

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Author: Marc Haber
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim 4.43 and GnuTLS: How to control cipher negotiation?
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 20:21:03 -0500 (EST), Richard Welty
<rwelty@???> wrote:
>On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 09:19:35 +0100 Jan-Peter Koopmann <Jan-Peter.Koopmann@???> wrote:
>> > I am no expert on cryptography, but RC4 does generally not
>> > have a very good reputation, so I'd choose AES128, 3DES,
>> > ARCFOUR128 and ARCFOUR40, in this order.
>
>> I second this!
>
>i won't second it because it's not strong enough.
>
>RC4 is not even obsolescent, it's obsolete. the barn door has been
>open on that one for a long long time.


So you'd rather have no encryption instead of RC4 with a
communications partner who only can do RC4 or no encryption at all?

Greetings
Marc

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