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A couple things I forgot to mention about IE 8, no strong encryption for you.
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| It seems that in an effort to hawk Vista, 2008, and 7 off as “more secure”,
| Microsoft bumped Internet Explorer up to support for 256-bit AES encryption…
| sites like Newegg and most banks now support logging in with this and it
| should be pretty much impossible to crack (barring some horrible
| vulnerability discovered in it obviously).
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| But Microsoft is still refusing to upgrade the cryptography engine of IE 8
| for XP/2003 and users of these systems are stuck with the older 128-bit
| encryption.
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| The problem with this of course is that computing power has increased a lot
| since 2001 and even such novel things as using GPU (graphics processing
| units) to run extremely complex calculations is now possible. Obviously
| 128-bit is starting to seem a little weak.
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http://izanbardprince.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/a-couple-things-i-forgot-to-mention-about-ie-8-no-strong-encryption-for-you/
Related:
Symantec antivirus makes encrypted files inaccessible on Vista
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| Microsoft is plugging the Encrypted File System (EFS) feature on
| Vista for mobile users as an important security enhancement. It's
| potentially a good thing too, in case your notebook gets stolen,
| but it's something of a nightmare scenario if popular antivirus
| programs like Symantec don't play nicely with it.
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http://www.geekzone.co.nz/juha/2381
Vista encryption 'no threat' to computer forensics
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| "We're seeing the same concerns with Vista as we saw with XP over the
| idea that built-in encryption features might frustrate law
| enforcement efforts. In practice XP has not proved to be a problem
| for computer forensics and we don't think Vista will be either,"
| said Bill Thompson, director of professional development and
| training at Guidance Software.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/02/computer_forensics_vista/
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