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Re: Netscape 40-bit cracking. The new computing benchmark?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Fri Dec 29 21:16:41 1995

From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
To: jsw@netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 17:51:37 -0800 (PST)
Cc: weld@l0pht.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <30E488F1.1F51@netscape.com> from "Jeff Weinstein" at Dec 29, 95 04:33:53 pm

ObPlug: Community ConneXion does not ship a 40-bit-crippled
server. (Apache-SSL)

> > surprised by the security crack. "We've known that 40-bit encryption is
> > breakable since we shipped the server.  That's the reason it's allowed to
> > be exported," said company spokeswoman Rosanne Siino. "We need to keep

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