1997-08-26 - Re: Netscape Crypto

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From: “William H. Geiger III” <whgiii@amaranth.com>
To: Jason William RENNIE <jrennie@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au>
Message Hash: 70a3d11f171116273e0947ebc6b907f210c2dd2ffac8ed03d58f4767a9f6b92e
Message ID: <199708261247.HAA11489@mailhub.amaranth.com>
Reply To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970826221440.2575A-100000@hardy>
UTC Datetime: 1997-08-26 12:42:26 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 05:42:26 -0700 (PDT)

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From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 05:42:26 -0700 (PDT)
To: Jason William RENNIE <jrennie@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Netscape Crypto
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970826221440.2575A-100000@hardy>
Message-ID: <199708261247.HAA11489@mailhub.amaranth.com>
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In <Pine.SOL.3.91.970826221440.2575A-100000@hardy>, on 08/26/97 
   at 10:16 PM, Jason William RENNIE <jrennie@hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au> said:

>Does anybody know how strong the export netscape crypto stuff is ??

>Is the stuff only 40 bit crypto for export ??

>A friend asked me about the secure credit stuff and if netscape was 
>secure for credit cards ?? 

>So is the export copy secure ?? I presuem the non-export wouldn't be to
>bad.

They are both crap. Never trust a company that will not release their
source code.

BTW those cute little Verisign certs, well Verisign collects the info you
use to fill those out and resells them. Yes this is a company I would
trust. Honest :)

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