Netscape Crypto

[William H. Geiger III]

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In <Pine.SOL.3.91.970826221440.2575A-100000 at hardy>, on 08/26/97 
   at 10:16 PM, Jason William RENNIE <jrennie at hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au> said:

>Does anybody know how strong the export netscape crypto stuff is ??

>Is the stuff only 40 bit crypto for export ??

>A friend asked me about the secure credit stuff and if netscape was 
>secure for credit cards ?? 

>So is the export copy secure ?? I presuem the non-export wouldn't be to
>bad.

They are both crap. Never trust a company that will not release their
source code.

BTW those cute little Verisign certs, well Verisign collects the info you
use to fill those out and resells them. Yes this is a company I would
trust. Honest :)

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