Credit Card Contracts & banking liability

[Tom Thomson]

> When pressed as to how they had obtained the 128 bit SSL version for their
> customes, the answer was--' we don't supply any add-ons, customers use the
> standard browser supplied with the opereating system (eg, MS Internet
> Explorer)'. It was pointed out that this is only 40 bit SSL, the adviser
at
> the other end of the phone made assurances that this ' was absolutely
> secure'
>
> So, does anyone on this list know something we don't?
> Or are the banks really deluding themselves- surely it's a matter for the
> Bank of England to take away their banking licence if they are being so
> naive with their customer's money?

I imagine they are into server-gated stuff;  the export browsers have
128-bit SSL enabled when conducting sessions with servers that present
certain types of certificate, I think.