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1996-04-11 - Bank information protected by 40-bit encryption….

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From: droelke@rdxsunhost.aud.alcatel.com (Daniel R. Oelke)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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Message ID: <9604101921.AA25061@spirit.aud.alcatel.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-04-11 03:04:55 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:04:55 +0800

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From: droelke@rdxsunhost.aud.alcatel.com (Daniel R. Oelke)
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:04:55 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Bank information protected by 40-bit encryption....
Message-ID: <9604101921.AA25061@spirit.aud.alcatel.com>
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If you are the worring sort (or are looking for a ripe target)
point your browser at:
    https://www.diginsite.com/clients.html

There is a list of 23 Credit Unions - some (or all) of which
allow transactions to be done over the net.

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?)

They also have some other information about their security at:
   http://www.diginsite.com/security/security.html

I think it is GREAT that this kind of functionality is coming.
I also think that the pioneers like this had better be prepared
to be targets as I am sure they will be.

Dan

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Dan Oelke                                  Alcatel Network Systems
droelke@aud.alcatel.com                             Richardson, TX

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