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Re: Security Update news release



> >
> >  Here is the press release we put out this morning regarding the fix
> >for RNG seed and stack overflow problems.
> 
> Do the new versions use PGP's randseed.bin? If Netscape even only looks at
> data used to keep PGP secure,  Netscape will be banned from my computer
> and every computer I am responsible for. -- For good.

That doesn't quite make sense.  Netscape reading randseed.bin can have no
effect on the security of PGP.

Patrick
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