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Re: hushmail security

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (anon11800@hushmail.com)
Mon Jun 21 14:36:13 1999

From: anon11800@hushmail.com
Date: Mon Jun 21 11:29:17 GMT+02:00 1999
To: anon3054@hushmail.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net

On Wed, 16 Jun -1 anon3054@hushmail.com wrote:

> This much I've got working.  However as noted in my other message, you
> can't cold-connect to hushmail.  You have to first log in and get (via
> SSL) a session ID and Blowfish session key, which you use to encrypt
> your communication.

What happens to users of export grade browsers, do they transmit the
Blowfish key using RC4-40? That would be incredibly stupid, wouldn't it?


   
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