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Re: Netscape security

To: [email protected] (Adam Shostack)
Subject: Re: Netscape security
From: sameer <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 08:29:17 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "Adam Shostack" at Aug 18, 95 11:09:02 am
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> 	The certificates must be signed by an approved key signing
> agency.  Anyone can produce one; to get it to interact 'securely' with
> free netscape browsers you need the certificate to be signed.
> 
> 	There is no word as to how to become a KSA.  Netscpe has
> ignored the question on several occaisons.
> 

	It is interesting that in order for me to use the commerce
server on an *internal* application I am working on, my project
*still* needed to get the key signed by verisign, even though no one
outside of the company i am working for will have access to the
commerce server my application is running on.

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References:
- Re: Netscape security
  - From: [email protected] (Adam Shostack)

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