sorry for I mistype the number...,that is 465 instead of 356.....
thx a lot...

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From: "Dr. Stephen Henson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:31:02 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IE's problem  while visiting HTTPS

> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004, linux guy wrote:
> 
> > IE can not visit our HTTPS webserver while I create a self-signed certificate with 
> > a RSA key
> > which size is less than 365 bits,but they works well when the RSA size is more 
> > than or eaqual to 
> > 365.....
> 
> I'm surprised it can handled 365 bits. For SSLv3 and TLS as I mentioned
> recently the key size has to be large enough to send a 48 byte premaster
> secret. Add the 11 bytes of padding and you get 472 bits as a minimum.
> 
> Are you using SSLv2 by any chance?
> 
> Steve.
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