BofA + Netscape

[Perry E. Metzger]

anonymous-remailer at shell.portal.com says:
> Does anybody remember PGP 1.0?  Released in the summer of 1991, using
> the Bass-O-Matic cipher... which was worthless.
> 
> This list didn't come into existence until around the same time PGP
> 2.0 came out.  Thus, nobody railed against the weaknesses of PGP like
> they are railing against NetScape.

Imagine if someone proposed Bass-O-Matic today, however. Well, we have
better technologies than SSL today -- IMPLEMENTED AND AVAILABLE -- so
they aren't pioneering -- they are going retrograde.

Perry