[AusNOG] AU Major Banks and SHA-1

[Ivan Jukic]

Granted it uses 6 digits, silly I know in the conventional sense. However,
correct me if I am wrong. You need to enter the password using a floating
virtual keyboard. So keystroke logging and brute force/dictionary attacks
should not be an issue...

On 26 June 2015 at 08:23, Scott Howard <scott at doc.net.au> wrote:

> 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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