ebay encryption?

[John Lawson]

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Paul Koning wrote:

>>>>>> "Brad" == Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> writes:
> Brad> Two different browsers in the past 24 hours have complained
> Brad> about ebay's server and being unable to match the security
> Brad> protocol (I'm guessing the SSL negotiation failed to converge)
>
> This is rather disturbing.  How about asking Ebay?  Either we're being
> pharmed, or Ebay has broken its crypto setup; either way they need to
> do something about it.
>

   Yesterday evening eBay suffered a rather serious meltdown, which they 
blame on a 'power failure' at the company in San Francisco who 
(apparently) does thier physical hosting.

   Since then, I too have been getting that meesage in Mozilla.

   Coincidence? Proximate cause? I dunno...


Cheers