Saw this on BoS... To: best-of-security@cyber.com.au Subject: BoS: 128bit for Netscape ouside the US From: Stef Hoeben <Stefan.Hoeben@esat.kuleuven.ac.be> Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 13:00:54 +0100 (MET) Old-Status: O Old-X-Envelope-From: Stefan.Hoeben@esat.kuleuven.ac.be Mon Oct 27 23:02:17 1997 Old-X-Originally-To: To: best-of-security@cyber.com.au Old-X-Originated-From: From: Stef Hoeben <Stefan.Hoeben@esat.kuleuven.ac.be> Organization: ESAT, K.U.Leuven, Belgium Resent-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 16:57:55 +1100 (EST) Resent-From: best-of-security@cyber.com.au Resent-Message-ID: <"eSK-kC.A.f_C.2wSV0"@plum> Resent-Sender: best-of-security-request@cyber.com.au Sender: darrenr@cyber.com.au A program, called Fortify, has been developed that hacks Netscape to provide strong encryptioni.e. 168bit 3DES or 128bit RC4). Available on most platforms and for both versions 3.0 and 4.0 of Netscape. Freely available on the site below and only some 500K. http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Plaza/6333 We have tested it on one of our pc's ...and it worked. -> DES-CBC3-SHA connections with my own testserver have been made -> Netscape: "high-grade encryption key for U.S. domestic use only"