
But one thing we know about IE that great: it’s security – there’s no denying this one. It would be unfair to add more hate on IE that it already suffers regarding its performance and HTML compliance.

We did not track down whether it was a problem with IE occasionally not applying those cipher settings correctly when browsing sites, or whether it was due to the cipher suites themselves – but one thing is clear: resetting the browser to its default usually resolves most browser-related problems pertaining to the http protocol.

So it appears that this is not cipher suite issue. The above error message is informative, and it appears that the error is related to IE using deprecated cipher suites.īut checking the ciphers in Tools > Internet Options > Advanced, in the Settings scrollbox, looking under Security, we see that we are already using updated cipher suites TLS 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 (at present, SSL 3.0 is the only deprecated cipher) that should be selected by default in IE11.
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If this error persists, it is possible that this site uses an unsupported protocol or cipher suite such as RC4 (link for the details), which is not considered secure. “This page can’t be displayed – Turn on TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and TLS 1.2 in Advanced settings and try connecting to again. Are you currently using Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) and have been randomly getting slow responses that arrive at an error message:
