ebay encryption?

[Dwight K. Elvey]

Hi
 I think it is someone flooding their input. There
have been a burst of phishing emails to my hotmail
account. When people see ebay not responding they
may think there is a problem with their account and fall
for the phishing email.
Dwight


>From: "Paul Koning" <pkoning at equallogic.com>
>
>>>>>> "Brad" == Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> writes:
>
> Brad> I hate to ask an ebay question *here*, but I know some people
> Brad> here use ebay.
>
> 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)
>
> Brad> Has anyone else seen this?  Just curious.  Any idea what it is?
>
>Weird.
>
>I see the message pop up but then Mozilla does display the "locked"
>icon at the bottom, and clicking that produces a page that claims
>AES-256 is being used.
>
>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.
>
>   paul
>
>