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Security Encryption in Firefox

Security is one of the strong features demonstrated in Firefox 2 to ensure the users have a good browsing experience. For this reason, Secure Sockets Layer 2.0 (SSL 2.0) is disabled by default as they treat the protocol as weak and unsafe. Before going on further, SSL are cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet for various purposes including web browsing, e-mail, instant messaging and data transfers.

Therefore, Firefox 2 will enable and run SSL 3.0 only by default to enhance their security. However, there are some difficulties when users are trying to access web pages running with SSL 2.0 encryption. There are still a lot of e-billing system use this protocol to provide secure data transmissions. Consequently, you might get the following error message:

Some of the users might try to configure the problem in the Options page but there are only 2 options left, either SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0. The appropriate solution would be changing the configuration in the config page. The users need to key in “about:config” in the URL location bar to access the page. Then, search for you can search for the following preference:

security.ssl3.rsa_rc4_40_md5

After that, try to double click to toggle the boolean value from False to TRUE in order to enable the options. Now, you can restart your Firefox browser and you might be able to access the web page encrypted with SSL 2.0. If the problem still exists, then you might need to try out on other security options using the same way.

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