From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 13:01:25 +0800
To: ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home)
Subject: Re: Netscape Bug :)))
In-Reply-To: <199706130357.WAA08338@manifold.algebra.com>
Message-ID: <199706130454.XAA06447@mailhub.amaranth.com>
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In <199706130357.WAA08338@manifold.algebra.com>, on 06/12/97 
   at 10:57 PM, ichudov@Algebra.COM (Igor Chudov @ home) said:

>William H. Geiger III wrote:
>>    at 10:47 PM, ichudov@Algebra.COM (Ignoramus Chewed-Off) said:
>> >William H. Geiger III wrote:
>> >> Seems that there is a bug in Netscape including the new Communicator that
>> >Do you know if the bug affects Unix versions? How about linux?
>> >And what is the exploit?
>> 
>> They didn't go into details but they did say in the report that it was a
>> bug in the "core" of the Netscape code so I would imagine that it is cross
>> platform.
>> 
>> Unfortunatly they did give details on how to use this bug.
>> 
>> This seems to be a bug that has been out for awhile as it is not just the
>> new Communicator but older versions of NS also.
>> 
>> Perhaps time to generate a new PGP key pair? :(

>You mean, your passphrase is empty?

No I feel quite secure in my choice of passphrases. I don't use NS so I am
not concerned about it. If for some reason I thought that a 3rd party had
aquired my secring.pgp file I would generate a new key (I'm paranoid but
that doesn't mean that "they" aren't out to get me <g>).

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