Bank information protected by 40-bit encryption....

Tom Weinstein tomw at netscape.com
Thu Apr 11 05:22:12 PDT 1996


sameer at c2.org wrote:
> 
> > For Netscape servers, you can configure which ciphers you want to
> > use. I'm sure Apache-SSL and most other SSL-capable servers have
> > the same sort of thing.  I know that Wells Fargo, at least,
> > requires 128-bit encryption.
> 
>         (Yeah, Apache-SSL lets you do that too)
> 
>         Uh, but Wells Fargo doesn't. Just the other day I used
> Netscape 1.x international (i.e. 8cent RC4) to get my bank balances
> from Wells Fargo.

Can you transfer money or just check balances?  I'm pretty sure that
they won't let you perform transactions unless you're using
Netscape 2.0 with 128-bit encryption.

-- 
Sure we spend a lot of money, but that doesn't mean | Tom Weinstein
we *do* anything.  --  Washington DC motto          | tomw at netscape.com






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