BT's Trustwire 40 bit secure communications claim

[Ben Laurie]

Nick Pope wrote:
> 
> 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?

It is the fact that it is issued by a CA which is flagged in the
browser's cert DB as being an SGC CA.

Cheers,

Ben.

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