[92853] in Cypherpunks
RE: MS Server Gated Crypto: strong encryption w/ exportable brows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trei, Peter)
Thu Jan 8 20:19:52 1998
From: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@securitydynamics.com>
To: "'David Honig'" <honig@otc.net>
Cc: "'cypherpunks@toad.com'" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 13:55:19 -0500
Reply-To: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@securitydynamics.com>
Netscape got this deal quite some time ago, so it's hardly a special
priviliege for MS.
It lets certain (trusted by the US government) servers to use strong
encryption with US
products outside of the US.
Peter Trei
Disclaimer: I am not speaking for my employer.
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> From: David Honig[SMTP:honig@otc.net]
> Reply To: David Honig
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 1998 12:02 PM
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject: MS Server Gated Crypto: strong encryption w/ exportable
> browsers if the server is US-OK
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> The jist of
> http://eu.microsoft.com/industry/finserv/m_finserv/m_fordev_g.htm
> is, MS has US permission to export a DLL containing 128-bit SSL
> *worldwide*
> since
> the encryption is enabled IFF there's a Verisign "SGC certificate" on
> the
> *server*.
> This apparently will work with Netscape servers in addition to IIS.
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