[17650] in Athena Bugs
Re: root certificates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Mon Mar 13 14:48:01 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 14:47:54 -0500
In-Reply-To: "t. belton"'s message of "Mon, 13 Mar 2000 13:11:07 -0500 (EST)"
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"t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU> writes:
> On 13 Mar 2000, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Exactly. Basically Netscape 3 is only provided on an "as-is" basis at this
> point whether we like it or not.
Well, you *could* theoretically patch the binaries; I don't know how
feasible that would be in this case.
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
