[2892] in WWW Security List Archive
Alleged security problems with (French) MSIE V2.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colin Miller)
Wed Sep 4 17:58:56 1996
From: Colin Miller <colinmil@microsoft.com>
To: "'trei@process.com'" <trei@process.com>,
"'www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu'" <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 13:09:07 -0700
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>This report is correct. There was a potential problem in the authentication
>of certificates. This has been addressed in an update to version 2.1 which
>will be available within the next week. The solution is that the product
>will now fail to connect when it encounters certificates from sources that it
IE is not aware of. Thanks for your help in making IE a better product.
Thanks,
Colin
(70)3-4530
colinmil@microsoft.com
