The suites are:īringing Perfect Forward Secrecy to Windows is an important step forward, especially in context of the expressed desire of many large technology providers to encrypt everything in the wake of Snowden and NSA/GCHQ surveillance. “The update adds the following cryptographic cipher suites to the default list in all affected operating systems and includes improvements to the cipher suite priority ordering,” Microsoft said. The updates are available for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 32- and 64-bit systems, as well as Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 20 R2 system.
Update 3042058 is available for now only on the Microsoft Download Center, affording users the opportunity to test the ciphers before bringing them into their respective IT environments.
Microsoft yesterday added four cryptographic cipher suites to its default priority ordering list in Windows, a move that brings Perfect Forward Secrecy to the operating system.
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