[1137] in WWW Security List Archive
Netscape & Verisign
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hepworth)
Wed Nov 8 14:56:29 1995
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 13:20:34 +0000 (GMT)
From: Martin Hepworth <martin@dynasuk.co.uk>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
cc: "Andreas Fuchsberger (RHU)" <af@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Whilst testing (ok playing) with Netscape2.0 Beta 2 I wondered upon the
security section of the options menu. This being all new in Beta 2 I
investigated the what seems to be occuring is that Netscape have teamed
up with Verisign (http:///www.verisign.com/) to add on digital
certicates and signing to e-mail, Web transactions etc.
Now then, Verisign will be giving various forms of certificates on
application to them starting from end of November for a Class 1 (free)
level, with up to Class 4 rolling out from December. Now as Verisign
holds all these signatures this is very interesting -
Any comments/ more info people.
Martin Hepworth
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