[936] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: WWW-SEC: Secure Mosaic?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Beth Frank)
Mon Sep 25 18:06:54 1995
From: efrank@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Beth Frank)
To: millar@pobox.upenn.edu (Dave Millar)
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 12:57:27 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199509251336.JAA22057@pobox.upenn.edu> from "Dave Millar" at Sep 25, 95 09:36:17 am
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
>
> Is a free copy of Secure Mosaic available to the general public? Most
> current info. I could find on EIT's(Terisa's) pages, etc. was that NCSA was
> to build shttp security features into Mosaic and possibly distribute it.
> Did that ever happen, or is it still only in the domain of CommerceNet
> participants? I don't see any mention of shttp on any of NCSA's pages for
> distributing Mosaic, but maybe it's old hat by now.
>
> Dave
>
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There were a bunch of legal hassles in the technology transfer.
I believe they were resolve just in time for the personal handling
it to leave for the Australian web conference. He will be back this
week, and then we'll find out if everything is OK with both legal
departments and if we're finally going to get the code. Once NCSA
has the code it will be encorporated into Mosaic. The agreement
doesn't cover the server (one of the major sticking points in the
legal argument, we had thought it did, but it turns out it doesn't).
So, we are currently pursuing funding to do a free implementation of
the server side libraries for S-HTTP. (Anyone who might me interested
in granting funding please let me know. The more people willing to
grant small amounts of funding, the better our chances of getting
enough to do the implementation.)
--
Elizabeth(Beth) Frank
NCSA Server Development Team
efrank@ncsa.uiuc.edu
