[44096] in Cypherpunks
Re: Certificate Authorities?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harry S. Hawk)
Tue Nov 28 20:50:22 1995
From: "Harry S. Hawk" <habs@warwick.com>
To: jsw@netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 20:39:10 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com (Good Guys)
In-Reply-To: <30BBB178.267A@netscape.com> from "Jeff Weinstein" at Nov 28, 95 05:03:52 pm
> We are looking at adding the ability for enterprise security
> administrators to lock various parts of the Navigator configuration
> so that the user can not change them, including stuff relating
> to trust and certificates. This functionality will not be in
> 2.0, but we do consider it important for certain customers.
As a Cypberpunk, a reporter and a corporate user of java/hot
java/netscape not only should you do that but have a way of locking in
various class libs.. E.g. if I want to change the security class
(but don't want my users to do so..) there needs to be a way.. THat
SHOULD be in 2.0.
/hawk
Harry Hawk, Manager of Interactive Communications
Warwick Baker & Fiore, 212 941 4438, habs@warwick.com
The Internet has the potential to set us free -- to learn anything and
do anything, whenever we want. No wonder politicians want to regulate
it -- The Washington Post, November 7, 1995, p. A13., Cyber Liberation
[Column], James K. Glassman
