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

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From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
To: sameer@c2.org
Message Hash: ffd75f6792d0c6c5edd7dc31722a72e6a2e7559cda620718ab326326879db880
Message ID: <316C919D.1372@netscape.com>
Reply To: <199604110445.VAA06906@atropos.c2.org>
UTC Datetime: 1996-04-11 12:22:12 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 20:22:12 +0800

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From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 20:22:12 +0800
To: sameer@c2.org
Subject: Re: Bank information protected by 40-bit encryption....
In-Reply-To: <199604110445.VAA06906@atropos.c2.org>
Message-ID: <316C919D.1372@netscape.com>
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sameer@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@netscape.com

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