[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Bank transactions on Internet

To: J�ri Kaljundi <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Bank transactions on Internet
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 14:04:10 -0400
cc: E$ mailing list <[email protected]>, [email protected]
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Apr 1996 19:38:34 +0300." <Pine.GSO.3.92.960408192320.16049B-100000@happyman>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Sender: [email protected]


> 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

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Bank transactions on Internet
  - From: [email protected]

References:
- Bank transactions on Internet
  - From: J�ri Kaljundi <[email protected]>

Prev by Date: Bank transactions on Internet
Next by Date: Re: Australia's New South Wales tries net-censorship
Prev by thread: Bank transactions on Internet
Next by thread: Re: Bank transactions on Internet
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread