Lucky Green wrote:
At 13:38 7/22/96, Tom Weinstein wrote:
Yes, and that's what we're trying to do. Get strong crypto in the hands of as many people as we can. I can hardly wait until we get S/MIME in.
What will Netscape do to about the 40bit RC-2 default and the signatures on the outside of the encryption envelope design flaws in S/MIME? I can't imagine Netscape releasing software that has these two properties.
If you know that the recipient can read a message encrypted with 3DES, IDEA, or RC2-128, then you can send the message using one of these strong algorithms. Given that you need someones public key to send them a message, there are several obvious ways to transmit information about what algorithms they accept along with it. --Jeff -- Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.