From: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 95 08:38:28 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: NYT on Netscape Crack
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John Markoff in the NYT said:
>     The company said it would release a repaired version of the
>     software within a week.

Does this sound to anyone else like a pretty short amount of time to code and  
test a decent source of entropy for the PRNG?  <...and someone else said it  
should be out in a day or so!>

Jeff Weinstein writes:
>    Regardless of what Markoff implies, we do not intend to depend
>  on security through obscurity.

Oh, can we now expect to see source to at least the security portions of  
Navigator and the Commerce server?


andrew