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RE: 128 bit or 40 bit?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew James Gering)
Wed Sep 16 17:38:57 1998

From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>
To: "Cypherpunks (E-mail)" <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 14:05:01 -0700
Reply-To: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net>


> All browsers have the 128 bits encryption inthem, but in the
> non-US version it can only enabled by a 'special cert'.

So what makes it so "special?" A special CA? What happens when that
special CA expires, cannot the user add/modify certs, or does everyone
need to patch their MSIE (or whatever) when that happens.

	Matt


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