1997-07-17 - Re: Verisign gets export approval

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From: “William H. Geiger III” <whgiii@amaranth.com>
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Message Hash: 9c8cbc039a77dc27dfda9a692281b2e43dc2530f0d7d2187cf63d338d6e6db40
Message ID: <199707171925.OAA02869@mailhub.amaranth.com>
Reply To: <3.0.2.32.19970717100056.00733db4@netcom10.netcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1997-07-17 22:03:02 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 06:03:02 +0800

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From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 1997 06:03:02 +0800
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Verisign gets export approval
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In <3.0.2.32.19970717100056.00733db4@netcom10.netcom.com>, on 07/17/97 
   at 10:00 AM, Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> said:

>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.

Yep, fairly simmilar to "policy tokens" that were disscused on the list
last year.

Let's face it people the management of Nut$cape & Mick$loth are a bunch of
rat bastards who would sell their own mothers to make a buck.

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