[3634] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Secure Netscape outside US.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Quantum)
Tue Nov 26 03:36:03 1996
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 01:35:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Quantum <quantum@obsidian.cse.fau.edu>
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9611250739.AA01548@is3e.vub.ac.be>
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Cuykens Anthony wrote:
>
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am curently working on a european project wich will probably
> use Netscape. For obvious security reasons, I would like to use the
> version of Netscape wich use strong necryption methode (i.e: I do not
> like 40 bit keys). Does anybody know if it is possible to buy this version
> of Netscape outside the US ?
>
> If you think that this question is out of the subject of this
> mailing list, don't bother to answerd or just link me to another information
> source.
>
I beleive you can buy it outside the US because the encryption algorithm
used has a mathematical trapdoor which has been given to the totaritorial
US government. The sheer fact that you need to ask this question casts
doubts on the validity of this outdated US law.
