Showing posts with label Firefox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Firefox. Show all posts

NSS 3.15.1 brings TLS 1.2 support to Firefox

Network Security Services (NSS), the collection of cryptographic libraries which is used by, among others, Mozilla's Firefox browser, now supports TLS 1.2 with the release of its latest version. TLS 1.2 supports HMAC-SHA256 ciphers for the generation of pseudorandom numbers, and so allows the usage of TLS without MD5 and SHA-1 algorithms. NSS 3.15.1 also introduces a number of new types, most of which have to do with the new TLS version, along with a number of smaller changes and bug fixes.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/NSS-3-15-1-brings-TLS-1-2-support-to-Firefox-1918133.html
Network Security Services

Dubious HTTP III - Playing With Content-Length

The Content-Length header describes the size of the content, so there should be at most one. But what happens, when multiple Content-length headers get sent?

To determine the behavior of the browsers I tested with:
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) versions 8 and 10
  • Firefox 22
  • Google Chrome 28
  • Opera 12.16 (before WebKit)
  • Rekonq (KDE project) 2.2.1 - Konqueror (KDE) seems to behave the same