From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 1997 03:12:55 +0800
To: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>
Subject: Re: [fwd][news] Netscape meets gov't security standard
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William H. Geiger III wrote:
> In <34196385.FB7F5278@netscape.com>, on 09/12/97
>    at 08:45 AM, Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com> said:
>
>> For those of you interested, we are validated at level 2 when used on a
>> C2 OS, level 1 otherwise.  You can find more info at
>> http://home.netscape.com/assist/security/faqs/fips140-1.html
> 
> Exactly what C2 OS are we talking here?!? You are not backing M$
> marketing claims of C2 for NT are you???

Last I checked, NT was only C2 when networking was turned off.  Kind of
hard to use our products that way.  In particular, we were certified on
Solaris 2.4SE.

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