293496 - 128 bit encryption is not documented anywhere in installed product

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(support.mozilla.org :: Knowledge Base Articles, task)

Description

[Will Budreau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

I had to do an online search in order to find out whether or not firefox
supported 128 bit encryption.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Viewed online help
2. Looked for security contents (nada)
3. Looked for encryption or 128 in index (nada)
4. Went to preferences
5. AFter digging, found "security"
6. cryptic terms SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0 but no mention of 128 bit encryption that is
explicitly mentioned on many sites
7. Searched mozilla.org/firefox/ for "encrypt" - still nothing about 128 bit

Actual Results:  
I went to google to find out if the browser supported encryption, had to dig
through several sites.

Comment 1

[Gids Goldberg]

There is some information in the glossary entry for secure site. An option to
make this more discoverable would be to add an entry to the contents say
'Using Firefox --> Navigating Web Pages --> Viewing Secure Sites' mostly using
the info from the aforementioned glossary entry and explicitly mentioning
support for high grade 128bit and 256bit SSL encryption as well as perhaps a
secure site location bar screenshot.

If people think this is a good idea I can try to whip up a patch.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.

Comment 4

[Jeff Walden (gone starting June 8)]

We still want to consider this, although I doubt spitting mumbo-jumbo numbers in
help docs is really going to be useful.  This needs more consideration than
that, tho, to close it.

Comment 5

[Steffen Wilberg]

Moving over to sumo.

Comment 6

[Scoobidiver (away)]

According to https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/how-the-knowledge-base-works, article requests are no longer tracked in Bugzilla.

Reporter, if you consider your request is still applicable, post a new thread describing the content with "[Proposed] Name of the article" as title in https://support.mozilla.com/forums/knowledge-base-articles

I close this bug as invalid.