1996-11-18 - Re: What do our Netscape folks have to say?

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From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 585396f7cc9f3c9ca792244184f5500322af6ce0b6e6840b57c0f344d25ca313
Message ID: <3290E95B.15FB@netscape.com>
Reply To: <Pine.3.89.9611171813.A12245-0100000@netcom14>
UTC Datetime: 1996-11-18 22:54:59 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:54:59 -0800 (PST)

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From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:54:59 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: What do our Netscape folks have to say?
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Timothy C. May wrote:
>
> At 6:44 PM -0800 11/17/96, Lucky Green wrote:
>
>> I have a hard time believing that Netscape caved. As I wrote in July,
>> HP was working on selling our children's birthright to obtain an
>> export license for their product. But Netscape participating in this
>> just doesn't sound right.
>
> Indeed, some comments from the usually-vocal Weinstein brothers would
> be most welcome.

Our position on hardware crypto is that if it has a PKCS#11 interface,
we'll probably support it.  To the best of my knowledge, we aren't
endorsing the HP scheme in particular.

-- 
You should only break rules of style if you can    | Tom Weinstein
coherently explain what you gain by so doing.      | tomw@netscape.com

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• 1996-11-18 (Sun, 17 Nov 1996 16:18:31 -0800 (PST)) - Re: HP announcing some International Cryptography stuff on Monday - frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
  • 1996-11-18 (Sun, 17 Nov 1996 18:44:29 -0800 (PST)) - Re: HP announcing some International Cryptography stuff on Monday - Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
    • 1996-11-18 (Mon, 18 Nov 1996 00:53:34 -0800 (PST)) - Re: HP announcing some International Cryptography stuff on Monday - C Kuethe <ckuethe@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
    • 1996-11-18 (Mon, 18 Nov 1996 14:54:59 -0800 (PST)) - Re: What do our Netscape folks have to say? - Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
  • 1996-11-18 (Sun, 17 Nov 1996 20:01:40 -0800 (PST)) - What do our Netscape folks have to say? - “Timothy C. May” <tcmay@got.net>
  • 1996-11-18 (Sun, 17 Nov 1996 21:13:08 -0800 (PST)) - Re: HP announcing some International Cryptography stuff on Monday - Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu>