From: patrick@Verity.COM (Patrick Horgan)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-09-26 17:37:13 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 10:37:13 PDT
From: patrick@Verity.COM (Patrick Horgan)
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 95 10:37:13 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Security Update news release
Message-ID: <9509261733.AA22080@cantina.verity.com>
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> >
> > Here is the press release we put out this morning regarding the fix
> >for RNG seed and stack overflow problems.
>
> Do the new versions use PGP's randseed.bin? If Netscape even only looks at
> data used to keep PGP secure, Netscape will be banned from my computer
> and every computer I am responsible for. -- For good.
That doesn't quite make sense. Netscape reading randseed.bin can have no
effect on the security of PGP.
Patrick
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