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I’ve been searching for what exactly defines different encryption “cipher grades” – such as those used in SSL and TLS, but haven’t been able to find a specific resource that draws the line between them.
What defines LOW, MEDIUM, and STRONG cipher grades?
There are many factors that contribute to the security level (grade is rarely used for this term) of ciphersuites. Many algorithms are involved, e.g. different algorithms for key exchange (RSA or Diffie-Hellman), other algorithms for the confidentiality part (AES, RC4 etc) and even more for message authentication. There is no uniform classification that I know of except for the ciphersuites in the SuiteB profile. In GnuTLS we have also a classification based on the long term key sizes.