Encryption levels on terminal services

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Apocs

Hi,

I have 2 questions.

1) MS says that the 128bit encryption level on terminal
services is only used in North America and Canada. What
does this mean for a local area network ?

2) Does increasing the encryption level have any effects
on the network performance ?

Cheers
 
-----Original Message-----
Hi,

I have 2 questions.

1) MS says that the 128bit encryption level on terminal
services is only used in North America and Canada. What
does this mean for a local area network ?
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If the LAN is in the US or Canada, then you can run 128-bt
encryption.
2) Does increasing the encryption level have any effects
on the network performance ?

Cheers
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Yes, although very little. Because the client and the
server both need to encrypt and decrypt each RDP packet,
there is a small amount of overhead, but as I said, it
isn't very much, especially when you consider that it may
prevent someone from stealing passwords.

-M
 
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