BT's Trustwire 40 bit secure communications claim

[Steve Mynott]

strangly enough BT micropayment

https://transend.labs.bt.com/ 

uses a RSA 128-bit cert.  How have they managed that?

On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 07:14:12AM -0800, Duggie Stenhouse wrote:
> Just been harangued by a BT salesman trying to sell the services
> of the BT spinoff http://www.trustwise.com
> 
> Basically it's a "bona fide" certificate issuer - however, they are also 
> selling "secure e-commerce solution" based on 40 bit keys which 
> "guarantee security"
 
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