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1996-07-21 - Re: Netscape 3.0B US version MD5 (was: Re: overseas PGPfone and Netscape)

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From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
To: Ian Goldberg <iang@cs.berkeley.edu>
Message Hash: 70edd2b55416d99082df6d348cb1c8164a228a5bc579719f85d3cc0d67174e59
Message ID: <31F18C75.2A4C@netscape.com>
Reply To: <4slmrl$a80@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1996-07-21 04:06:36 UTC
Raw Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 12:06:36 +0800

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From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 12:06:36 +0800
To: Ian Goldberg <iang@cs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: Netscape 3.0B US version MD5 (was: Re: overseas PGPfone and Netscape)
In-Reply-To: <4slmrl$a80@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu>
Message-ID: <31F18C75.2A4C@netscape.com>
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Ian Goldberg wrote:
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 
> In article <31EF632D.2B88@netscape.com>,
> Jeff Weinstein  <jsw@netscape.com> wrote:
> >Roy M. Silvernail wrote:
> >> Anyone sniffing the link
> >> knows the filename from previous forms submissions, anyway.
> >
> >  You can't sniff the link, since the form submission and the
> >file download are via SSL.
> >
> But assumedly if they're downloading the 128-bit netscape, then they're
> only using the 40-bit version to do it... :-)

  Well yes, the first time they do it.  But the many times they download
new versions, from now until the end of time, they can use 128-bit SSL.

	--Jeff

-- 
Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.

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