[39609] in Cypherpunks
Re: FROM A FRIEND . . .
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Wed Sep 20 13:04:52 1995
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 12:47:42 -0400
To: Sandy Sandfort <sandfort@crl.com>
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Cc: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
>Updating Customers:
>Netscape will provide the fix for Export (40 bit) versions of Netscape
>Navigator later this week for downloading by customers on the Internet.
>Similarly, the
>Commerce Server patch for Export versions (40 bit) will be made available
>from our home page. Because downloading of 128 bit versions of the software
>is still not permitted by U.S. law, U.S. customers of Netscape Navigator,
>Netscape Navigator Personal Edition and Netscape Commerce Server using 128
>bit versions can request the replacement from Netscape for delivery through
>the regular mail.
Funny, MIT and MPJ and others manage to enable the downloading of
export-controlled software. Also, wasn't there some sort of promise by
Netscape after we broke the 40-bit version to make the 128-bit version
available to US users under the Beta/freeware system? What happened to that
plan?
DCF
"This encryption thing is a lot harder than it looks."
