You can test the best encryption level established between yourself and a
website by pointing your browser (or app code) at

https://www.fortify.net/sslcheck.html

Note that different websites may negotiate weaker encryption.  Your app
could check a whitelist for acceptable/approved ciphers (determined by you)
using HttpsURLConnection::getCipherSuite().

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Amir Alagic <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have few questions about HTTPS security and I really hope that
> someone can give me answers. I have heard that when we use HTTPS
> (HttpsURLConnection) in our Android applications that it is possible
> that our app can send data that is not protected or protected with
> very low encryption with SSL2 protocol without end user to be aware
> of.
>
> Is this true? Is there even support for SSL2 in Android ?  Or is HTTPS
> on Android safe enough as it is?

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