1994-12-13 - Re: BofA + Netscape
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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 6b9093aac478f02dcfdf85a4e4243f01109a567d47ac3569a4ed505c1ff3d7ed
Message ID: <9412131845.AA12626@snark.imsi.com>
Reply To: <199412131814.KAA07205@jobe.shell.portal.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-12-13 18:45:35 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 13 Dec 94 10:45:35 PST
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 94 10:45:35 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: BofA + Netscape
In-Reply-To: <199412131814.KAA07205@jobe.shell.portal.com>
Message-ID: <9412131845.AA12626@snark.imsi.com>
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anonymous-remailer@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
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