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nsa and netscape (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Gimon)
Fri Dec 1 15:42:49 1995

To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 14:32:39 -0600 (CST)
From: "Charles Gimon" <gimonca@mirage.skypoint.com>

Forwarded message:
> From: "Bob Bruen, MIT Lab for Nuclear Science" <BRUEN@mitlns.mit.edu>

> 
>   The following came from a government source. I thought it might be of
>   interest. 
>                        Bob
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>      At yesterdays FNC  (Federal Networking Council) meeting it was 
>      mentioned in passing that NSA has given Netscape a grant of $5 Million 
>      (yes $5M) to beef up the security features of Netscape. More info will 
>      be forthcoming on this.
> 

I found my way to http://www.fnc.gov, but the most recent documents
that they had online were about three weeks old. 

I, too, am curious what the source for this was.



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