128-bit secure sockets layer encryption?
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Need to deal with paperwork, which requires online payment. Using Trisquel mini 11 tried to create account for this agency, gave email address, chose security questions and answers, printed those off, to proceed further trying to pay required recaptcha. NoScript showed what all wanted permissions, without those it wouldn't go. After the recaptcha it wouldn't go to payment part, said they had technical difficulties, or website maintenance. Trying to login or create account from another person's computer doesn't work, it says 'this email address is already in use' to use another one. Thought to try 'forgot password', but the security questions that come up for my email address are not the ones I had chosen. Reading about security on their website it says the browser needs to have 128-bit secure sockets layer encryption capability. Does Abrowser have this? The 4 browsers they tested that can do it are Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer. Non of which I want to use.
I have Windows 10 in dual boot on another laptop, but if I was to sign in to Windows 10 when it's connected to Wifi I gues it'll want to start updating right away. It's not connected to wifi right now on signing in I guess because it wasn't connected to the new router yet, but that means one can't use the internet then.
Does anybody have suggestions how to get this payment done?? (I feel bad enough having to use recaptcha!) In case the difficulty is because I'm using Abrowser, waiting on the phone for a long time tomorrow to speak with this agency won't help. Trying to do it from another laptop with Trisquel 10 gave the same message 'use another email address'.
Yes Abrowser has 128-bit encryption. All modern browsers do, for many years. In fact "Secure Sockets Layer" is old and outdated. They probably mean TLS but people keep calling it Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) anyway. And besides; the encryption handshake happens before any HTML/CSS is transmitted so if the browser didn't support whatever encryption was being used you'd be seeing a different error message, and it would be directly from Abrowser and not the website. Probably something like this: https://packetlife.net/media/blog/attachments/727/firefox_error.png saying "Secure Connection Failed" and going on how Abrowser couldn't communicate with the website because it could find no common encryption algorithms. That you are getting HTML & CSS says that the encryption part was successful and you're looking at a red herring.
"Use another email address" makes it sound like an account was in fact created, or at least the database that powers their website thinks that it was. Maybe don't try to create an account but log in to it? We probably cannot help much with that since we do not operate that website or have access to their database to remove the email address to start over or help with password resets or whatever else.
Thank you so much for this quick reply, jxself! (Also asked at the FSF forum.) Good to know that it's not Abrowser then, but likely something went wrong during registration. The '128-bit ...' words I copied from their website. Don't know whether the email issue will resolve itself with time, or whether I need to contact them.
In fact "Secure Sockets Layer" is old and outdated. They probably mean TLS but people keep calling it Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) anyway.
Since the site says "Internet Explorer" (and not "Edge") was tested, it may have seen no update since 2014 (Microsoft Edge was initially released in 2015), when the POODLE attack was discovered: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2014/10/14/the-poodle-attack-and-the-end-of-ssl-3-0/