TABLE B-2Available SSL Ciphers (Continued)

Cipher-Tag

Protocol

Key Exchange

Auth.

Encryption

MAC

Type

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXP-RC4-MD5

SSLv2

RSA (512 bit)

RSA

ARCFOUR (40-bit)

MD5

export

NULL-SHA

SSLv3

RSA

RSA

None

SHA1

 

NULL-MD5

SSLv3

RSA

RSA

None

MD5

 

ADH-DES-CBC3-SHA

SSLv3

DH

None

3DES (168-bit)

SHA1

 

ADH-DES-CBC-SHA

SSLv3

DH

None

DES (56-bit)

SHA1

 

ADH-RC4-MD5

SSLv3

DH

None

ARCFOUR (128-bit)

MD5

 

EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA

SSLv3

DH

RSA

3DES (168-bit)

SHA1

 

EDH-DSS-DES-CBC3-SHA

SSLv3

DH

DSS

3DES (168-bit)

SHA1

 

EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA

SSLv3

DH

RSA

DES (56-bit)

SHA1

 

EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA

SSLv3

DH

DSS

DES (56-bit)

SHA1

 

EXP-EDH-RSA-DES-CBC-SHA

SSLv3

DH (512 bit)

RSA

DES (40-bit)

SHA1

export

EXP-EDH-DSS-DES-CBC-SHA

SSLv3

DH (512 bit)

DSS

DES (40-bit)

SHA1

export

EXP-ADH-DES-CBC-SHA

SSLv3

DH (512 bit)

None

DES (40-bit)

SHA1

export

EXP-ADH-RC4-MD5

SSLv3

DH (512 bit)

None

ARCFOUR (40-bit)

MD5

export

 

 

 

TABLE B-3lists and describes the aliases that provide macro-like groupings.

 

TABLE B-3

SSL Aliases

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alias

 

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SSLv2

 

All SSL version 2.0 ciphers

 

 

 

 

SSLv3

 

All SSL version 3.0 ciphers

 

 

 

 

EXP

 

All export-grade ciphers

 

 

 

 

EXPORT40

 

All 40-bit export ciphers

 

 

 

 

EXPORT56

 

All 56-bit export ciphers

 

 

 

 

LOW

 

Lower strength ciphers (DES, 40-bit RC4)

 

 

 

MEDIUM

 

All 128-bit ciphers

 

 

 

 

 

HIGH

 

All ciphers using Triple DES

 

 

 

 

RSA

 

All ciphers using RSA key exchange

 

 

 

DH

 

All ciphers using Diffie-Hellman key exchange

 

 

 

EDH

 

All ciphers using Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key exchange

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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