Re: Interesting Egghead freebee

["Peter Trei" <trei@process.com>]

> From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
> Subject: Interesting Egghead freebee

> While at Egghead today, I found out that they are giving away copies of Spry
> Mosaic in a Box. (You have to buy something, but that was why I was there
> anyways...) So far, it seems to be worth about what you pay for it.  It is
> designed to connect you to Compu$lave.
> What has this to do with this list you ask?  The product actually claims to
> support S-HTTP!  (No export warnings on the package and no real info as to
> how it is implemented...  I suspect brand-name snake oil here.)  For those
> of you who do web development and are interested in a client that actually
> supports S-Http (I do not believe the d/lable version does), take a look.
> (It does install alot of crap, like a new Winsock, so be warned.)

Spry Mosaic really does support SHTTP - you can use it to connect to the
SHTTP test pages at Terisa and Commercenet without difficulty, once you've
doped out how to generate and get signed a low-assurance RSA persona
certificate.

I just performed an altavista search for references to "shttp://" (the SHTTP
prefix) and "https://" (the SSL prefix). The results were 1,000 SHTTP
hits, and 20,000 SSL hits.

SHTTP may be technicly superior to SSL level 2.0, but as a commercial
software developer, I know on which side my bread is buttered.





Peter Trei
Senior Software Engineer
Purveyor Development Team                                
Process Software Corporation
http://www.process.com
trei@process.com