[Gllug] Linux online banking yet again, especially with Konqueror

[Jason Clifford]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 09:51 +0100, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> HSBC's online business banking _used_ to be IE only, due to them using a 
> single ActiveX control that counted down from 10 to zero before before 
> requesting a file certificate file from the upstream server.  As near as 
> I can work out, the 10 second delay was to give the server more time to 
> generate the certificate.

I know. When I first tried to register for it (about 3 years ago) I
failed for that reason. At the time I complained explaining to my branch
manager that the system was horribly insecure and slow. She noted my
complaint and reported it upstream.

Early this year I had a meeting with a new business accounts manager at
the branch and she explained they have a new system in place. Now
authentication is 2 fold - a password and a 6 digit code generated by a
keyfob which is valid for 1 minute.

It works nicely and is platform independent - all I need is a browser
that supports ssl.

Jason

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