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Re: Verisign gets export approval
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In <[email protected]>, on 07/17/97
at 10:00 AM, Lucky Green <[email protected]> said:
>At 09:16 AM 7/17/97 -0700, Bill Frantz wrote:
>>It seems to me that someone who has a one year export approved Verisign
>>cert should use it to authenticate a new top-level CA cert which they pass
>>to their customers. Cut Verisign and their nosy/noisy partner out of the
>>loop.
>Only a valid VeriSign Global ID cert (an X.509 v3 cert with a special
>extension) will activate the strong encryption in exportable browsers.
>This is hardcoded into Navigator and Internet Explorer.
Yep, fairly simmilar to "policy tokens" that were disscused on the list
last year.
Let's face it people the management of Nut$cape & Mick$loth are a bunch of
rat bastards who would sell their own mothers to make a buck.
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