BT's Trustwire 40 bit secure communications claim

[Nick Pope]

I looked through the description of server-gated Cryptogrphy and can't find
anything which says exactly what in the certificate switches on this
capability.  Anyone know?

Nick Pope

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
> [mailto:owner-ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Ben Laurie
> Sent: 12 February 1999 11:38
> To: ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: BT's Trustwire 40 bit secure communications claim
>
>
> Steve Mynott wrote:
> >
> > strangly enough BT micropayment
> >
> > https://transend.labs.bt.com/
> >
> > uses a RSA 128-bit cert.  How have they managed that?
>
> Server-Gated Cryptography.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben.
>
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