
17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
At 10:00 AM -0700 7/17/97, Lucky Green wrote:
At 09:16 AM 7/17/97 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
It seems to me that someone who has a one year export approved Verisign cert should use it to authenticate a new top-level CA cert which they pass to their customers. Cut Verisign and their nosy/noisy partner out of the loop.
Only a valid VeriSign Global ID cert (an X.509 v3 cert with a special extension) will activate the strong encryption in exportable browsers. This is hardcoded into Navigator and Internet Explorer.
That's what patch installers are for ;-) --Steve