Notes security question

[Herb Sutter]

At 14:52 1995.09.25 -0400, Jon Lasser wrote:
>On Fri, 22 Sep 1995, Herb Sutter wrote:
>
>> While I'm at it, here's a question I've been wondering about recently: Why
>> is it I've never heard of any security issues with Lotus Notes?  Are there
>> no known weaknesses?  Or did existing weaknesses just not get much press
>> because Notes isn't a commercially visible consumer product like Netscape?
>
>Perhaps the Notes pricing scheme is sooo outrageous (by the standards of 
>a student like myself, and probably most others, if it's still anything 
>like it was at the 1.0 release) that mostpeople have had zero opportunity 
>to examine the program, let alone really have time to play with it?

Good point.  However, since it's been around for years and is (in some
people's eyes, at least) cutting-edge secure replication technology, it made
me begin to wonder about the product's actual security.  All I know is that
they use one of RSADSI's libraries, since RSADSI mentions them in their
"here are our current users" advertising.

>From the deafening silence, though, it seems like there's not a whole lot of
information or opinion either way on Notes' security...?

Herb

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