1995-08-17 - Re: Netsacpe’s Offical Response
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From: Andy Brown <asb@nexor.co.uk>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-08-17 16:29:37 UTC
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From: Andy Brown <asb@nexor.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 09:29:37 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Netsacpe's Offical Response
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On Thu, 17 Aug 1995, Glenn Powers forwarded Netscape's official response:
> So in conclusion, we think RC4-40 is strong enough to protect consumer-level
> credit-card transactions -- since the cost of breaking the message is
> sufficiently high to make it not worth the computer time required to do so
That was a rather silly thing to say.
- Andy
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- 1995-08-17 (Thu, 17 Aug 95 09:08:30 PDT) - Netsacpe’s Offical Response - Glenn Powers <gpowers@spectrum.bradley.edu>
- 1995-08-17 (Thu, 17 Aug 95 09:29:37 PDT) - Re: Netsacpe’s Offical Response - Andy Brown <asb@nexor.co.uk>
- 1995-08-17 (Thu, 17 Aug 95 10:11:38 PDT) - Idle compute cycles [Re: Netscape’s Offical Response] - Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>