Size of Keys and Netscape Source Code

[Richard Snow]

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>On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Juan Andres Avellan wrote:
>
>> Is it foreseeable that with the recent release of the Netscape Communicator
>> source code that certain adaptations will be made by international
>> developers to the browser that may allow larger key sizes for the
>> international version.
>
>Unless there are some very strange statements about how netscape can
>be further developed, it seems that it would be trival to hack it
>to work with the SSLeay libraries.
[...snip]

I rather understood that this is what Eric Young and Tim Hudson had already
done (see Martin Hamilton's message of Thu, 02 Apr 1998 06:53:11 +0100).
But then, as Charles Lindasy pointed out, it was April 1st.

	... Richard.


Dr C.R.Snow
Department of Computing Science
University of Newcastle
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
United Kingdom.

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See home page (or public key server) for PGP public keys.

PGP Key (RSA, length 1024).
PGP Key ID: 864A1C95
PGP Key Fingerprint: A5E9 5684 A1F9 D08A  097C 7D31 91EC DE13
PGP Key (DSS/Diffie-Hellman, length 1024/2048).
PGP Key ID: 5F6DF708
PGP Key Fingerprint: 5B9F B1CF 5C44 8467 AC3A  CC81 3EA8 7458 5F6D F708


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