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I have just downloaded and have begun to use K-Meleon - if anyone can provide a discription of the level of security that I should expect I would appreciate your input.
1.) Google & U find: Secunia K-Meleon
None known in K-Meleon core.
2.) Google & U find: Secunia Firefox 2
For the GRE (Gecko rendering engine), potentially the same as Firefox 2 that uses the same GRE. That means that Firefox 2 insecurities can, but often do not effect K-Meleon. If any effect K-Meleon it is discussed here in Forums: General or in Bugs. If You hear about a Firefox bug come here to check.
Encryption the same as Firefox, SeaMonkey etc. it comes with the GRE.
3.) None of the safe surf plug-in providers supports K-Meleon explicitly.
K-Meleon is a waste of time (too small number) for hackers and security PPL alike
I understand that KM's encryption is 128bit by default. I recall a post was once entered with instructions how to make adjustments in about:config to increase KM's encryption to 256bit, but I do not recall the specific instructions nor the forum post regarding this. And I have recently reinstalled KM 1.5.1, so I may be using 128bit encryption. Perhaps gunter or one of the other guru's can point us in the right direction or post the directions in this thread for us.
Charlie
~~If it ain't broke, why screw it up?~~
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081115 K-Meleon/1.5.2
AFAIK the U stands for good encryption:
AFAIK 256 is activated by default. If You want to check -> Edit -> Configuration ->
Browser Configuartion - Search field enter keyword "security", all up to 256 look activated = true (1024 = false). BTW. The same as with Firefox and SeaMonkey.
Lesser values were for export once, do not know about current situation.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/15/2009 06:44PM by guenter.
General discussion about K-Meleon
security
Posted by:
steve
Date: February 15, 2009 03:02PM
I have just downloaded and have begun to use K-Meleon - if anyone can provide a discription of the level of security that I should expect I would appreciate your input.
Re: security
Posted by:
guenter
Date: February 15, 2009 04:09PM
Quote
steve
if anyone can provide a discription of the level of security that I should expect I would appreciate your input.
1.) Google & U find: Secunia K-Meleon
None known in K-Meleon core.
2.) Google & U find: Secunia Firefox 2
For the GRE (Gecko rendering engine), potentially the same as Firefox 2 that uses the same GRE. That means that Firefox 2 insecurities can, but often do not effect K-Meleon. If any effect K-Meleon it is discussed here in Forums: General or in Bugs. If You hear about a Firefox bug come here to check.
Encryption the same as Firefox, SeaMonkey etc. it comes with the GRE.
3.) None of the safe surf plug-in providers supports K-Meleon explicitly.
K-Meleon is a waste of time (too small number) for hackers and security PPL alike
Re: security
Posted by:
caktus
Date: February 15, 2009 05:54PM
I understand that KM's encryption is 128bit by default. I recall a post was once entered with instructions how to make adjustments in about:config to increase KM's encryption to 256bit, but I do not recall the specific instructions nor the forum post regarding this. And I have recently reinstalled KM 1.5.1, so I may be using 128bit encryption. Perhaps gunter or one of the other guru's can point us in the right direction or post the directions in this thread for us.
Charlie
Re: security
Posted by:
guenter
Date: February 15, 2009 06:39PM
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081115 K-Meleon/1.5.2
AFAIK the U stands for good encryption:
AFAIK 256 is activated by default. If You want to check -> Edit -> Configuration ->
Browser Configuartion - Search field enter keyword "security", all up to 256 look activated = true (1024 = false). BTW. The same as with Firefox and SeaMonkey.
Lesser values were for export once, do not know about current situation.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/15/2009 06:44PM by guenter.
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