Another thing you might consider if Verisign will sell them is to get a
Global Server certificate. They are designed for banks. It used to be that
if you were a financial institution you could get this special server
certificate for SSL which would trigger a 'step up' in cripplied netscape
and IE to 128 bit encryption.
Now, with strong encryption walls having been broken down in the US, maybe
global certs no longer qualify you to have to be a bank?
At 10:36 AM 5/7/01 -0700, Andrew Ho wrote:
>Hello,
>
>GY>sorry for the OT, but has anyone figured out how to tell whether a browser
>GY>supports 56 or 128 bit encryption? Apparently, users of IE with 56 bit,
>GY>when entering a 128 bit page, get the standard Cannot Find Server error
>page
>GY>with little in the way directions to help the EU know to upgrade.
>GY>
>GY>has anyone battled this and come up with an elegant solution?
>
>Mainly, this just sucks. One possibility is that on any page the user is
>supposed to hit BEFORE going SSL, to have a warning if the browser sniffs
>to be a recent IE. I would just add the warning for any IE browser. It's
>harder if your entire site is SSL. I'm hoping someone will answer with a
>better solution than dumbing down encryption altogether.
>
>Humbly,
>
>Andrew
>
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