Size of Keys and Netscape Source Code

[Markus Kuhn]

Juan Andres Avellan wrote on 1998-04-06 09:37 UTC:
> 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, or is that part of the source code being kept under
> the control of Netscape?

No, it is not foreseeable. It has already happened.

A first test release of Cryptozilla was released on

  http://mozilla-crypto.ssleay.org/

around 15 h after Netscape had released the Mozilla source code. Cryptozilla
is the Mozilla version with SSLeay strong crypto extensions developed in
Australia. Mozilla is what marketroids nicknamed the "Netscape Communicator".
Its source code excluding the cryptography parts has been released on
<http://www.mozilla.org/> on 1998-04-01.

Markus

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Markus G. Kuhn, Security Group, Computer Lab, Cambridge University, UK
email: mkuhn at acm.org,  home page: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>