Size of Keys and Netscape Source Code

Paul Crowley paul at hedonism.demon.co.uk
07 Apr 1998 10:03:14 +0100


Juan Andres Avellan <javellan@ccls.edu> writes:
> 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?

Mozilla had all the crypto code removed prior to release, and a
version with strong crypto in place was developed and released 15
hours after the source release.  See http://mozilla-crypto.ssleay.org/
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