[AusNOG] AU Major Banks and SHA-1

Scott Howard scott at doc.net.au
Fri Jun 26 08:23:23 EST 2015


You forgot to mention :

Westpac - maximum 6 digit passwords for Internet Banking. No special
characters allowed.  No upper/lower case distinction. (But at least it's
better than their 3 digit phone PINs)

SSL is pretty much the least of Westpac's problem when it comes to Internet
Banking security...

  Scott



On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc at mmc.com.au> wrote:

> We've all been distracted by the large scale crazy of site blocking, meta
> data retention and whatever else the Australian Government is doing.
>
> But need to focus on some basics:
>
> SHA-1 is on it's way out (see
> http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/09/gradually-sunsetting-sha-1.html
> ).
>
> Friend got a warning for his bank (not Australian) from Chrome about bad
> SSL configs, so I went and had a quick look at the big 4 banks in Australia
> to see what's up.
>
> Commbank - got it right - no SHA-1 for home page or Internet Banking, no
> TLS 1.0
> ANZ - no SSL on home page, TLS 1.0 and SHA-1 for internet banking (oh boy!)
> NAB -  no SSL on home page, TLS 1.2 and SHA-1 for internet banking
> Westpac - no SSL on home page, TLS 1.2 and SHA-1 for internet banking
>
> Anyone here who can influence good internet crypto for the 3 that aren't
> quite there?
>
> MMC
>
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