This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080100010401000103080002 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm a Mac user 10.4.8 of Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 & am wondering how "Enabling FIPS" will improve my security? I can't seem to find any explanation of FIPS under Thunderbird help. -- Have a good day R Schwager --------------080100010401000103080002 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> <font size="+1">I'm a Mac user 10.4.8 of Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 & am wondering how "Enabling FIPS" will improve my security? I can't seem to find any explanation of FIPS under Thunderbird help.</font><br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Have a good day R Schwager</pre> </body> </html> --------------080100010401000103080002--
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Richard Schwager wrote: > I'm a Mac user 10.4.8 of Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 & am wondering how > "Enabling FIPS" will improve my security? I can't seem to find any > explanation of FIPS under Thunderbird help. > > -- > Have a good day R Schwager > FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) is a method of encryption that can be used with TLS (Transport Layer Security) It is a standard set by the US Federal Government for encrypting data. It should be used if the device and service mandate it. Otherwise do not use it.
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------090401050506090102050606 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Moz Champion (Dan) wrote: > Richard Schwager wrote: >> I'm a Mac user 10.4.8 of Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 & am wondering how >> "Enabling FIPS" will improve my security? I can't seem to find any >> explanation of FIPS under Thunderbird help. >> >> -- >> Have a good day R Schwager >> > > > > FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) is a method of > encryption that can be used with TLS (Transport Layer Security) > > > It is a standard set by the US Federal Government for encrypting data. > It should be used if the device and service mandate it. Otherwise do > not use it. So in Thunderbird it is not necessary, & doesn't add any important level of security? -- Have a good day R Schwager --------------090401050506090102050606 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Moz Champion (Dan) wrote: <blockquote cite="midgtudnZYfZ4P7f9rYnZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d@mozilla.org" type="cite">Richard Schwager wrote: <br> <blockquote type="cite">I'm a Mac user 10.4.8 of Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 & am wondering how "Enabling FIPS" will improve my security? I can't seem to find any explanation of FIPS under Thunderbird help. <br> <br> -- <br> Have a good day R Schwager <br> <br> </blockquote> <br> <br> <br> FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) is a method of encryption that can be used with TLS (Transport Layer Security) <br> <br> <br> It is a standard set by the US Federal Government for encrypting data. It should be used if the device and service mandate it. Otherwise do not use it. <br> </blockquote> <font size="+1">So in Thunderbird it is not necessary, & doesn't add any important level of security?</font><br> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Have a good day R Schwager</pre> </body> </html> --------------090401050506090102050606--
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Richard Schwager wrote: > Moz Champion (Dan) wrote: >> Richard Schwager wrote: >>> I'm a Mac user 10.4.8 of Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 & am wondering how >>> "Enabling FIPS" will improve my security? I can't seem to find any >>> explanation of FIPS under Thunderbird help. >>> >>> -- >>> Have a good day R Schwager >>> >> >> >> >> FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) is a method of >> encryption that can be used with TLS (Transport Layer Security) >> >> >> It is a standard set by the US Federal Government for encrypting data. >> It should be used if the device and service mandate it. Otherwise do >> not use it. > So in Thunderbird it is not necessary, & doesn't add any important level > of security? > > -- > Have a good day R Schwager > Its adds FIPS - which if the device or service you use requires it, is quite neccessary. It does add a very high level of security when in use (which is why its mandated for Federal Government computers and systems) If your system/service/device doesnt require it, then dont use it. Use of FIPS requires you to have a password for each security device in the system
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