Editor: “Harden SSL/TLS” allows hardening the SSL/TLS settings of Windows 2000,2003,2008,2008R2, XP,Vista,7. It allows locally and remotely set SSL policies allowing or denying certain ciphers/hashes or complete ciphersuites.
This tool specific allows setting policies with regards to what ciphers and protocols are available to applications that use SCHANNEL crypto interface. A lot of windows applications do use this interface, for instance Google Chrome as well as Apple Safari are a few of these. By changing the settings you can indirectly control what ciphers these applications are allowed to use.
