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Selecting a cipher suite for secure connections

Sun Secure Global Desktop Software allows you to specify the cipher suite used to secure connections with the the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). The following cipher suites are supported:

Cipher suite Client
preference
OpenSSL name JSSE name
RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA 1 AES256-SHA TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA 2 AES128-SHA TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA 3 DES-CBC3-SHA SSL_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA
RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA 4 RC4-SHA SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA
RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 5 RC4-MD5 SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5
RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA 6 DES-CBC-SHA SSL_RSA_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA

Connections between clients and Secure Global Desktop servers

To specify the cipher suites used for connections between clients and Secure Global Desktop servers, run the following command:

Skip past command syntax or program codetarantella config edit --tarantella-config-security-ciphers cipher_list

Connections between Secure Global Desktop servers

To specify the cipher suites used for secure intra-array communication, run the following command:

Skip past command syntax or program codetarantella config edit --tarantella-config-security-peerssl-ciphers cipher_list

About cipher suites

A cipher suite is a set of cryptographic algorithms used to:

A cipher suite specifies one algorithm for each of these tasks. For example, the RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 cipher suite uses RSA for key exchange, RC4 with a 128-bit key for bulk encryption, and MD5 for message authentication.

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