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

Jeff Weinstein jsw at netscape.com
Thu Apr 11 10:15:29 PDT 1996


Daniel R. Oelke wrote:
> A brief once over shows that it requires Netscape 2.0 or
> better so you will have encryption, but it does not warn you
> when you are using only a 40-bit session key vs. a 128-bit key.
> (Netscape wizards - is there a way that the server can detect
>  this so that a warning message could be put up?)

  There is an environment variable called HTTPS_KEYSIZE that
is passed to cgi's by the HTTP server.

	--Jeff

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