[17648] in Athena Bugs
Re: root certificates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Mon Mar 13 12:44:20 2000
To: "t. belton" <tbelton@mit.edu>
Cc: Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit@mit.edu>, bug-infoagents@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 13 Mar 2000 12:44:14 -0500
In-Reply-To: "t. belton"'s message of "Mon, 13 Mar 2000 03:24:34 -0500 (EST)"
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<tbelton@MIT.EDU> (t. belton) writes:
> The v.4 Netscape we have as standard on Athena should be recent enough to
> not have this problem, as I recall. Of course v.3 has it, but presumably
Correct.
> the people who are still using v.3 are aware of the many
> obsolescence-related problems it has, of which root certificates are but
> one.
Nevertheless, some users still prefer Netscape 3. (For instance, I
favor it because it's much less bloated than version 4, because it
adequately, handles most of the pages I look at, and because I happen
to like its interface slightly better.) I for one would really prefer
not to have to start version 4 every time I want to access an
off-campus secure site.
Unfortunately, it seems that Netscape would rather desupport version 3
SSL than rerelease it with newer certificates, so this problem is not
as easy to fix as one might like.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
