Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 10:51:42 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>, scrappy@hub.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape 4.03b8 and Encryption: Message-ID: <199710061751.KAA14072@rah.star-gate.com>
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Nope.
Amancio
>From The Desk Of patl@phoenix.volant.org :
> > Better yet, ask them to make encryption pluggable, and ask them for sample
> > code for a 40 bit encryption, and make a 128 bit module for yourself.
> >
> > If you can get someone in S.A. (or elsewhere) to do it, then NetScape
> > can work around the export restrictions (and Microsoft can't). This
> > should be very desirable for them, actually.
>
> Great idea; but I believe that the export restrictions prohibit
> pluggable cryptography.
>
>
>
> -Pat
>
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