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51:. When the legislation added an exception for financial transactions, SGC was created as an extension to SSL with the certificates being restricted to financial organisations. In 1999, this list was expanded to include online merchants, healthcare organizations, and insurance companies. This legislation changed in January 2000, resulting in vendors no longer shipping export-grade browsers and SGC certificates becoming available without restriction. 77:, which needs its own high encryption pack that was included in Service Pack 2 and later). "Export-grade" browsers are unusable on the modern Web due to many servers disabling export cipher suites. Additionally, these browsers are incapable of using SHA-2 family signature hash algorithms like SHA-256. Certification authorities are trying to phase out the new issuance of certificates with the older SHA-1 signature hash algorithm. 743: 80:
The continuing use of SGC facilitates the use of obsolete, insecure Web browsers with HTTPS. However, while certificates that use the SHA-1 signature hash algorithm remain available, some certificate authorities continue to issue SGC certificates (often charging a premium for them) although they are
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used International Step-Up, which used the now obsolete insecure renegotiation to change to a stronger cipher suite. Microsoft used SGC, which sends a new Client Hello message listing the stronger cipher suites on the same connection after the certificate is determined to be SGC capable, and also
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that it supports. Although the weaker exported browsers would only include weaker ciphers in its initial SSL handshake, the browser also contained stronger cryptography algorithms. There are two protocols involved to activate them.
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supported Netscape Step-Up for compatibility (though this support in the NT 4.0 SP6 and IE 5.01 version had a bug where changing MAC algorithms during Step-Up did not work properly).
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obsolete. The reason certificate authorities can charge a premium for SGC certificates is that browsers only allowed a limited number of roots to support SGC.
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started supporting strong encryption without the need for a separate high encryption pack (except on
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United States federal legislation on the export of strong cryptography
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Server-Gated Cryptography (SGC) browsers pose security risks
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and shorter key lengths in software exported outside of the
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University of Cambridge page on Server Gated Cryptography
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When an SSL handshake takes place, the software (e.g. a
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Index

Netscape
SSL
United States federal legislation on the export of strong cryptography
encryption
algorithms
United States of America
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer 3
obsolete
Internet Explorer 5.01
Internet Explorer 5.5
Windows 2000
web browser
ciphers
Netscape Communicator 4
FREAK
Thawte SGC Knowledgebase
Archived
archive.today
"Global Server ID Details"
the original
University of Cambridge page on Server Gated Cryptography
SSLShopper.com "Say No to SGC"
Server-Gated Cryptography (SGC) browsers pose security risks
Microsoft's page on Server Gated Cryptography
Old mod_ssl documentation
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Internet Explorer

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