Chrome - SSL Security issue on Windows platforms?

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Published on 2010-04-02T11:26:14Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 11:33 UTC
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Fortify.net is a service that displays what's the currently encryption key used by your browser in a https connection. If I browse this site with Chrome 4.1.249.1042 in WinXp SP3 the key used is

RC4 cipher, 128-bit key

This encryption is weak, and it's the one used by old browsers like IE6.
Chrome works fine on Fedora9 and it uses

AES cipher, 256-bit key

as more modern browsers do (i.e.Firefox)

I consider this a security issue. I'm considering to switch back to Firefox in Windows.
Do you know if it's possible to change the default encryption key in Chrome?

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