I read somewhere that gmail now uses RC4 – 128 bit. But they used to use AES – 256. Does anyone know if this is true and why the change? |
I simply checked by clicking the icon in FF3. Gmail does use RC4-128 encryption not AES-256.
That really sucks... |
No one cares? I thought this was newsworthy... |
This post has some potentially useful comments: http://www.vdsat.com/2008/06/21/the-state-of-online-encryption/#comments |
THANK YOU, Ionut!!!
Those comments revealed that gmail still offers AES-256 encryption which is much better than RC4-128. All you have to do is disable the RC4 ciphers in FireFox which I did. Now my gmail account has the AES-256 encryption.
Thanks again!!! |