At 11:37 AM -0700 7/24/96, The Deviant wrote:
(just so you'll know, RSA's FTP basicly has a readme file that says "the files in subdir of a dir thats -r+x to you, so if you're a citizen go to dist/usaRANDOM_NUMBER_HERE", thats it). Then make them explain why Netscape should be any different.
I don't KNOW, but a reasonable speculation is because Netscape is a complete operating package and RSAREF is a set of subroutines or (in the case of MIT PGP, a pre/post processor). If, as I have often speculated, the objective is to keep mass market software with strong crypto out of foreign hands (and Netscape certainly qualifies given the number of copies out there), then one would expect more stringent rules for it, the Microsoft browser (when IT gets strong crypto), Lotus Notes, etc. David