Verisign gets export approval
Steve Schear
azur at netcom.com
Thu Jul 17 15:06:29 PDT 1997
At 10:00 AM -0700 7/17/97, Lucky Green wrote:
>At 09:16 AM 7/17/97 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
>>It seems to me that someone who has a one year export approved Verisign
>>cert should use it to authenticate a new top-level CA cert which they pass
>>to their customers. Cut Verisign and their nosy/noisy partner out of the
>>loop.
>
>Only a valid VeriSign Global ID cert (an X.509 v3 cert with a special
>extension) will activate the strong encryption in exportable browsers. This
>is hardcoded into Navigator and Internet Explorer.
That's what patch installers are for ;-)
--Steve
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