[39449] in Cypherpunks
Re: NYT on Netscape Crack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Loewenstern)
Tue Sep 19 11:43:00 1995
From: Andrew Loewenstern <andrew_loewenstern@il.us.swissbank.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 95 10:37:34 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc: jsw@neon.netscape.com
John Markoff in the NYT said:
> The company said it would release a repaired version of the
> software within a week.
Does this sound to anyone else like a pretty short amount of time to code and
test a decent source of entropy for the PRNG? <...and someone else said it
should be out in a day or so!>
Jeff Weinstein writes:
> Regardless of what Markoff implies, we do not intend to depend
> on security through obscurity.
Oh, can we now expect to see source to at least the security portions of
Navigator and the Commerce server?
andrew
