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What is the cipher strength of firefox 4 ?

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Anoop09
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IE 9 tells us about the browser strength which is 256 bit cipher strength. So what is the browser strength for Firefox 4 ?

IE 9 tells us about the browser strength which is 256 bit cipher strength. So what is the browser strength for Firefox 4 ?

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the-edmeister
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Firefox matches what each website uses, up to 512 bit if necessary.

cor-el
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Firefox did support 256 bit ciphers (AES-256) since 2002 in Firefox 2. IE only added that recently.

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