CU@HOME Information

Available to all Crocus Credit Union account holders!

If you've already signed up for Internet banking, click the button below to login now.

Computer Requirements

• Personal Computer with a minimum 800 x 600 display resolution.
• Modem or some form of access to the Internet
• Internet Browser:
  • For Microsoft Windows
  • 128-bit Microsoft Internet Explorer® 5.5 or 6.0
  • 128-bit Netscape® 7.x
  • For Macintosh
  • 128-bit Microsoft Internet Explorer® 5.2 for OS X
  • 128-bit Netscape® 7.x for OS X
• Access to the Internet Banking application from your Credit Union

How Does it Work?
With Internet banking, you can conduct all of your banking business from home, right over the Internet. It's all easy, and it's all safe, because our new CU@HOME service uses 128-bit encryption. This is one of the highest forms of encryption technology available today.

About Browsers and Encryption
There are many different Web browsers on the market today. The most popular two are Netscape® and Microsoft Internet Explorer®. These two products come in dozens of different versions, and each has a different degree of security.

Web browsers deliver security by encrypting all of the information that travels between your computer and a server into unreadable messages. Even if they are somehow intercepted on the way from your computer to an online service, these encrypted messages are meaningless. Only when they reach their destination can they be decrypted back into useable messages by the server.

40-bit encryption is the most common kind. It's called that because the keys that it uses to encode messages are 40 bits long. For very sensitive transactions, though, the much stronger 128-bit encryption is recommended by all privacy advocates and security professionals.

That's why our new CU@HOME service uses 'strong' 128-bit encryption, and that's why to use CU@HOME, you need to make sure you're using a 128-bit secure version of your Web browser, whether it's from Netscape® or from Microsoft®.