[79263] in Cypherpunks
(Fwd) Re: Netscape cripples French software
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Trei)
Tue Apr 29 14:51:47 1997
From: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 14:08:49 -6
Reply-To: "Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>
Forwarded from the cryptography mailing list.
Shades of authenticode...
Peter Trei
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Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 10:07:25 -0700
From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
Organization: Netscape Communications, Inc.
To: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, Joel Reidenberg - Fordham <reidenberg@sprynet.com>
Subject: Re: Netscape cripples French software
Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
>
> "Communicator Preview Release 3 Availability in France. In accordance
> with French law barring S/MIME encryption, Netscape has removed
> Communicator Standard and Professional products from the French
> Netscape product download sites. We will be providing subsequent
> Public Release versions of the Communicator with S/MIME encryption
> disabled on the French download sites."
What we're actually doing (starting in PR4) is separating out the
export crippling from the executable. There will only be one
executable (modulo l10n) and it will be configured by a signed policy
file. In France, we'll have a policy file that will turn off all
encryption, and only allow signing. In the US and Canada, we'll have
one that lets you do everything. Everywhere else we'll have the normal
export policy.
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Peter Trei
Senior Software Engineer
Purveyor Development Team
Process Software Corporation
http://www.process.com
trei@process.com
