From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com> Subject: Interesting Egghead freebee

While at Egghead today, I found out that they are giving away copies of Spry Mosaic in a Box. (You have to buy something, but that was why I was there anyways...) So far, it seems to be worth about what you pay for it. It is designed to connect you to Compu$lave. What has this to do with this list you ask? The product actually claims to support S-HTTP! (No export warnings on the package and no real info as to how it is implemented... I suspect brand-name snake oil here.) For those of you who do web development and are interested in a client that actually supports S-Http (I do not believe the d/lable version does), take a look. (It does install alot of crap, like a new Winsock, so be warned.)

Spry Mosaic really does support SHTTP - you can use it to connect to the SHTTP test pages at Terisa and Commercenet without difficulty, once you've doped out how to generate and get signed a low-assurance RSA persona certificate. I just performed an altavista search for references to "shttp://" (the SHTTP prefix) and "https://" (the SSL prefix). The results were 1,000 SHTTP hits, and 20,000 SSL hits. SHTTP may be technicly superior to SSL level 2.0, but as a commercial software developer, I know on which side my bread is buttered. Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation http://www.process.com trei@process.com