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1996-04-08 - Re: Bank transactions on Internet

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
To: Jüri Kaljundi <jk@digit.ee>
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Message ID: <199604081804.OAA03690@jekyll.piermont.com>
Reply To: <Pine.GSO.3.92.960408192320.16049B-100000@happyman>
UTC Datetime: 1996-04-08 23:49:15 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 07:49:15 +0800

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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1996 07:49:15 +0800
To: Jüri Kaljundi <jk@digit.ee>
Subject: Re: Bank transactions on Internet
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.92.960408192320.16049B-100000@happyman>
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> Suddenly some banks here in Estonia have decided that they must start
> offering banking services over Internet already during the next months.
> What worries me is that some of them are talking about using 40-bit SSL as
> the main security mechanism.

That seems very silly. Considering that you folks have no laws
preventing you from using better I would suggest not doing something
so foolish -- 40 bit RC4 is almost worthless as a cryptosystem as the
recent paper on key lengths points out.

Perr

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