ANZ, was Re: [plug] Star Office and 5.1 and the registration

[David Bastow]

Have a look were you saw the claim of 128-bit encryption, was it right
under some statement like:
	"ANZ, we care for their customers"

-David B


On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Christian wrote:

> Mike Holland wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Bret Busby wrote:
> > 
> > > Does that include the wonderful method of security (?) developed by
> > > the ANZ Internet banking facility (shut out everyone who does not have
> > > IE 4 or IE5, and tell those who can access the facility, that 128 bit
> > > encryption applies, regardless of the ability of their browser?)
> > 
> > I have recently use ANZ from Netscape 4.51 on Linux.
> > No problems, except being slow. Nothing special to do.
> > What method do they use?  A java encryption program?
> 
> Bret was telling me that they it through a page served from an
> SSL-enabled web server and also showed me some emails from the ANZ staff
> who were telling him that it as using 128 bit encryption, despite the
> fact that International browsers only do 40-bit.  Can anyone suggest a
> reason for this anomaly? (other than the ANZ staff are clueless/lying
> which hopefully is not the case).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian.
> 
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