[jdev] Cipher suite availability

[Justin Karneges]

On Tuesday 05 April 2005 08:37 am, Vinod Panicker wrote:
> Dunno if this is the right question to ask on this list, but seemed to
> be the closest match.
>
> Basically i'm trying to create an xmpp implementation.  The TLS cipher
> suite required is specified in the RFC as
> TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA.
>
> The Sun JSSE/Sun JCE security providers (JDK 1.5) sadly dont provide
> this cipher suite.  Are there alternatives that can be used such as
> SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA?

For compatibility reasons, many TLS implementations also support SSLv3, so you 
can probably get away with it.

However, do a Google for "TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA" and Java, JCA, JCE, 
etc.  It looks like there are some options.

-Justin