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SSL Weak Encryption Algorithms – how to disable them under IIS

June 22, 2010 – 4:36 pm

Chances are if you are reading this you’ve failed a “Trustkeeper Scan” – with “Low severity” – due to having weak SSL encryption algorithms enabled on IIS. It’s pretty easy to solve this, but if you read the microsoft KB article it looks pretty complicated. Launch regedit and go to this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Ciphers You basically want [...]

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Disabling SSLv2 support in IIS

June 22, 2010 – 4:16 pm

If you have undergone a “Trustkeeper Scan” and failed due to your Microsoft web server using SSLv2, then read on.  SSLv2 is considered a “medium” security risk and will cause your scan to FAIL, so therefore to be PCI-DSS compliant (for credit card companies), you need to disable it via the registry on your Windows [...]

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