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Re: Add-in encryption module to Netscape

To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Add-in encryption module to Netscape
From: Phil Karlton <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 15:39:13 -0700
Newsgroups: mcom.list.cypherpunks
Organization: Netscape Communications
References: <[email protected]>
Sender: [email protected]

[email protected] wrote:

> I'm not in the US of A and the Netscape commerce server that my employer
> recently purchased has only 48bit key (as told by the salesman).

For exportable clients and servers, the symmectric keys for doing bulk
encryption are 40 bits.

> My question is
> whether it is possible to add-in my own security module (RSA)

The symmetric (RSA) keys are at least 512 bits.

> and secondly, how
> difficult is it? The salesman cannot answer me.

Netscape cannot get permission to distribute software with "pluggable"
crypto. This and the above restrictions are the result of U.S.
regulations.

PK
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