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Re: BofA + Netscape

To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: BofA + Netscape
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 13:45:08 -0500
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Dec 1994 10:14:38 PST." <[email protected]>
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[email protected] says:
> Does anybody remember PGP 1.0?  Released in the summer of 1991, using
> the Bass-O-Matic cipher... which was worthless.
> 
> This list didn't come into existence until around the same time PGP
> 2.0 came out.  Thus, nobody railed against the weaknesses of PGP like
> they are railing against NetScape.

Imagine if someone proposed Bass-O-Matic today, however. Well, we have
better technologies than SSL today -- IMPLEMENTED AND AVAILABLE -- so
they aren't pioneering -- they are going retrograde.

Perry

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