[Help-gnutls] Re: GnuTLS supports RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5?

Simon Josefsson simon at josefsson.org
Thu Aug 23 11:03:39 CEST 2007


"Thangiah, Leny IN BLR SISL" <leny.thangiah at siemens.com> writes:

> Hi,
>  
> I 'm new to the world of SSL. I am evaluating various SSL
> implementations for using in one of our products. I found that GnuTLS
> is more portable, scalable and flexible than any other
> implementations.

Hi, and welcome!

> Please let me know if GnuTLS supports the following ciphering algorithms. These are the crucial requirements for my evaluation.
> SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5
>
> TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5

As far as I know, those are the same cipher, RFC 4346 says:

    CipherSuite TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5               = { 0x00,0x04 };

and on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/245030 I see that

SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5	{ 0x00,0x04 }

Anyway, yes, GnuTLS supports that cipher suite.

You may want to look into this comparison between some implementations:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/comparison.html

It may not be complete (additions are most welcome), but should give you
some indication on what is supported.

Note that GnuTLS does not support SSL version 2.0 since it has been
broken security-wise.

/Simon





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