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Re: New Crypto Application

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Subject: Re: New Crypto Application
From: Jeff Barber <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 09:50:55 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: [email protected] (Cypherpunks List)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> from "David Macfarlane" at Jul 29, 97 08:25:09 am
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David Macfarlane writes:

> My memory is a bit foggy on this one, but didn't the gov't ask 
> Netscape (and others?) to stop producing programs with the hooks
> for strong encryption in them, in spite of the fact that they 
> did _not_ provide that strong encryption?

The story was that NSA had asked the NCSA folks to remove the
PEM/PGP hooks in their web server source.  See, for example,
    http://consult.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/httpd/Upgrade.html


-- Jeff

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- Re: New Crypto Application
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