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Security About Security When we offer transactions on-line, Honda FCU will use a complete set of security tools, including cryptography, firewalls and trusted operating systems to make sure that your transactions over the Internet will be both secure and authentic. The multiple layers of security will protect both your money and your confidential information from any kind of tampering or theft. For browsers, the two most common encryption key lengths are "40-bit" and "128-bit." A 40-bit key can be guessed within a few hours by an average personal computer (in less than one minute by some). But, if you made a secure purchase with a browser using 128-bit key encryption, it would take one billion powerful computers, each capable of trying one billion keys per second, millions of years to try every possible combination of bits in your 128-bit key! So, 128-bit encryption is not just three times stronger than 40-bit encryption - it is 309,485,009,821,345,068,781,056 stronger. Now that's strong encryption!¹ ¹Larry Gentry, "Maximum Security: Get It By Using A Browser That Supports 128-Bit Encryption," bLink Magazine, December 1998/January 1999, 12. In order for your computer to support the
security or the 128-bit encryption, Netscape Navigator 4.0 or higher
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