Suddenly can't access my bank's encrypted website

After downloading a handful of updates a week or so ago (not even sure if Safari was included), I'm now unable to access my bank's website. After about 2 minutes, I get a message stating that I need to upgrade to a browser with 128 bit encryption. Safari worked fine before on this site, and the bank's side states they haven't changed anything.
Any ideas?

Wilbur507 wrote:
I too had this issue.
PayPal is a bank to this is what they say...
PayPal warns its members to avoid using Safari when making transactions, since it has a distinct lack of protection against phishing – the act of coaxing a user to click on a false link on a false web page for malicious purposes.
First, understand that there are two issue being discussed, and they're not the same thing: (1) entering a secure transaction at a web site and (2) phishing, which requires clicking on an email link.
Safari is a secure web browser with strong encryption and is absolutely safe for transactions at sites like PayPal.
Phishing can only occur when you click on a link in an email, follow that link, and enter sensitive information on the resulting web page. If you do not click on links in emails and enter information at the resulting site, phishing attempts will not be successful.
I understand what PayPal and others are trying to do when they warn that Safari doesn't have protection from phishing. They're not wrong. But PayPal is really just aiming for the lowest common denominator (i.e. their most naive customers) and covering their own ... um ... behinds ... by handing out this advice. Their warning is only due to the risk that their customers will be caught by a phishing attempt, not based on any concerns about Safari as a secure browser.
The bottom line is that, yes, Safari doesn't warn of phishing attempts, but that doesn't mean it's not secure. It just means it doesn't protect you from yourself if you're foolish enough to click on a link in an email and then enter your sensitive information at the resulting site. If you get an email from a merchant or company with which you do business, close that email, open Safari (or any other browser with strong encryption), type in that merchant's web site address (or use your established bookmark to that merchant's site), log in, and proceed from there.

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