Netscrape download
[From Phil Karn] Netscape's use of a CGI interface to download the US version (128-bit key) of Netscape Navigator raises the possibility that they are "serializing" or "personalizing" each copy they send out, perhaps in response to a DoS request that they do so in order to trace unauthorized redistribution. One way to test this theory without redistributing the actual code is to compare MD5 hashes of the distributions. After two days of unsuccessful attempts at obtaining the code from their overloaded server, I've just successfully downloaded the SunOS, BSDI and Windows 95 versions of Netscape Navigator. Here are the MD5 hashes of the files I received: BSDI version: 4ec4a705e2e4c6560475852fae807c8c SunOS version: e72ff352ca7c619cb31b8f8ef3651b28 Windows 95 version: 8e936813f12a1b3b77ed03d9239ebd5d Anybody care to compare these to the copies they obtain, assuming the logjam on the server breaks sometime soon? Phil -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close...........(v)301 56 LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead........vr vr vr vr.................20915-1433
"David" == David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com> writes:
I already trashed the Linux .tgz I downloaded, all I've got left to compare are the Microsoft Windows '95 (spit, to borrow a term), and Microsoft Windows 3.1 (spit, to borrow a term). David> Windows 95 version: David> 8e936813f12a1b3b77ed03d9239ebd5d 8e936813f12a1b3b77ed03d9239ebd5d ns_inst-95.exe # md5sum ns_inst-31.exe 0f4de3e744ec4e356ba9f8feb3ded7ec ns_inst-31.exe Linux executable: $ md5sum =netscape-3.0b5 a82666e8c83a39c4e4653f0de2a930cf /usr/local/www/bin/netscape-3.0b5 I seriously doubt they're playing any games. Also, I got onto their system within a half hour of spotting the announcement sitting in my cypherpunks.spool file and had no trouble downloading even though it wouldn't let me into the site with Lynx. I'd say they gave this list preferential, timely treatment ... -- steve@miranova.com baur Unsolicited commercial e-mail will be proofread for $250/hour. Andrea Seastrand: For your vote on the Telecom bill, I will vote for anyone except you in November.
In article <m291cgu9oh.fsf@deanna.miranova.com>, Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> wrote:
Linux executable: $ md5sum =netscape-3.0b5 a82666e8c83a39c4e4653f0de2a930cf /usr/local/www/bin/netscape-3.0b5
Looks like we match: ~ $ md5sum /opt/netscape-3.0b5a-US/bin/netscape a82666e8c83a39c4e4653f0de2a930cf /opt/netscape-3.0b5a-US/bin/netscape Also, for any others who might like to compare their Linux .tar file: ~ $ md5sum netscape.tar.Z fdface7dbbf0ea350847edf1ad37e4a8 netscape.tar.Z
Also, I got onto their system within a half hour of spotting the announcement sitting in my cypherpunks.spool file and had no trouble downloading even though it wouldn't let me into the site with Lynx. I'd say they gave this list preferential, timely treatment ...
Three cheers for Netscape! -- Dave
[From Phil Karn]
Netscape's use of a CGI interface to download the US version (128-bit key) of Netscape Navigator raises the possibility that they are "serializing" or "personalizing" each copy they send out, perhaps in response to a DoS request that they do so in order to trace unauthorized redistribution.
SunOS version: e72ff352ca7c619cb31b8f8ef3651b28
This is the same one I got. No funny business there. Jim Gillogly Mersday, 26 Afterlithe S.R. 1996, 14:25
Thanks. Others have confirmed the BSDI and Windows 95 version, so I guess they're all the same. Phil
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