In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, KUROSAKA Teruhiko wrote:
> Hogarth wrote:
> 
>>>After I upgraded Mozilla from 1.2.1 to 1.3, I tried accessing
>>>https://home.da-us.citibank.com/signin/indexkiosk.htm
>>>with Mozilla 1.3 but the site returned an error page stating:
>>>     To use Direct Access, you need a browser that supports
>>>     strong encryption (128-bit)
>> 
>> 
>> I believe the silly webmaster forgot to future-proof his web browser
>> checking cgi script as 1.3 does infact support 128bit keys. 
> 
> They might be guilty.  But I still don't understand
> why Mozilla 1.2.1 had no problem with their site.
> Do they simply check the browser name and versions
> against their hard-coded list, rather than checking
> the encription strenth through a dedicated API?

it seems that is what they do.  what's really silly is that if you go on
to their browser check page -
http://home.da-us.citibank.com/da/whatdo/index.htm and choose "check
encryption", then it says the browser encryption is ok.

-- 
Michael

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