secret key size not big enough. Halifax website.
 

HI.

My missus uses the Halifax online banking stuff. N.B. Their servers went down few days ago.

Anyway, today she tried to get on, and she's getting this.

I'm on 1Mbit NTL. No proxy is listed in my connection options. I'm using M$ IE 6. My cipher strength is 128bit.

Anyone any idea what todo about this. The only thing I've done recently is install M$ Visual Studio 6 (Programming development thing) though I doubt that would've altered any internet stuff.

Is it ntl's proxies being naff, or my problem?

cheers,

Re: secret key size not big enough. Halifax website.
 

Looks like the problem is the "transparent" proxy being automatically assigned is misbehaving so the solution may be to nominate a different one.

Which area are you in so someone can suggest a better one to use for your area?

Re: secret key size not big enough. Halifax website.
 

proxies dont cache secure websites

Re: secret key size not big enough. Halifax website.
 

no no i think you mean their not supposed to..rember it's ntl

Re: secret key size not big enough. Halifax website.
 

very funny :D

secure connections are transmitted on a different to port to normal web traffic

Re: secret key size not big enough. Halifax website.
 

I use Halifax, just logged on to my portfolio without a problem. Using 600kBB IE6 and 128 bit encryption.

Re: secret key size not big enough. Halifax website.
 

It's not the proxies, they don't intecept SSL traffic - but it is quite possible that VS6 has installed an old dll somewhere - I suggest re-installing IE6.

Re: secret key size not big enough. Halifax website.
 

I know its no help to your problem but I use the Halifax website and i can log on to my acount ok. 600k and IE6

Re: secret key size not big enough. Halifax website.
 

I'm the Solent reagion btw.

How do I re-install IE6. It was kinda just an upgrade to the IE that comes with windows.

Re: secret key size not big enough. Halifax website.
 

Visual Studio 6 used to come with IE5.5, could it be possible that it has regressed your browser back to 5.5 and removed the 128K compatibility?

Re: secret key size not big enough. Halifax website.
 

Re download the IE6 SP1 setup from here Nutty:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/s...displaylang=en

Re: secret key size not big enough. Halifax website.
 

I've already done that. Windows update is broken also. It seems my SSL component of windows is broken, just need to find out how to fix it. Prolly have to do re-install or something.. :(

Re: secret key size not big enough. Halifax website.
 

The url of the setup file is ;

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...S/ie6setup.exe

Re: secret key size not big enough. Halifax website.
 

Well I figured if I re-installed a new browser it should setup the SSL. I installed Mozilla, and I can now get to the halifax login page, so SSL is now working on that. I'll reboot and try the windows update thing to see if thats fixed.

Re: secret key size not big enough. Halifax website.
 

Check out this post from Robin Walker Nutty as SSL is causing other problems so this could be linked to the issue with "Word" and Norton in the other thread.

http://forum.nthellworld.co.uk/showp...13&postcount=8