From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Oct 4 10:54:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA27295 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 10:54:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ptway.com (apollo.ptway.com [199.176.148.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA27288 for ; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 10:54:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brianjr.haskin.org (219R1.ptway.com [199.176.148.86]) by ptway.com (8.7.1/3.4W4-PTWAY-sco-ODT3.0) with ESMTP id NAA09776; Sat, 4 Oct 1997 13:46:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3436829A.BA613792@ptway.com> Date: Sat, 04 Oct 1997 13:53:30 -0400 From: Brian Haskin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Hermit Hacker CC: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: Netscape 4.03b8 and Encryption: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > ============================= > Insufficient encryption > > This document requires a larger secret key size for encryption than > your > browser is capable of supporting. > ============================= > > Has anyone seen this before? I'm trying to access my bank account, > through > the web, using Netscape 4.03b8 under FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT. I can do it > using > 4.03 under Win95 *ick* but it fails through FreeBSD :( > > Any ideas? > > Marc G. Fournier > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: > scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org Unfortunately the beta put out by netscape only has the weaker international 40 bit encryption (last I heard anyway). Which is fairly easy to break and is the reason your bank doesn't want you useing this to connect with them. Brian Haskin