BT's Trustwire 40 bit secure communications claim

David Parkinson dparkins at alien.bt.co.uk
Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:57:37 +0000 

At 09:16 12/02/99 +0000, Steve Mynott wrote:
>strangly enough BT micropayment
>
>https://transend.labs.bt.com/ 
>
>uses a RSA 128-bit cert.  How have they managed that?
>

According to my browser:
  The RC4 encryption is 128-bit (40 secret)
  The RSA element is 512-bit.

David