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In <v0310280ab0d195b3e11b(_at_)[208(_dot_)129(_dot_)55(_dot_)202]>, on 01/01/98
at 10:58 AM, Steve Schear <schear(_at_)lvdi(_dot_)net> said:
Sure it does. (Hello, are you listening?) Fortify modifies the currently
shipping, currently export approved Navigator/Communicator, allowing
users anywhere to use its 128-bit SSL whenever they connect with a
128-bit capable SSL server (say a cypherpunk server at XS4all in the
Netherlands). Normally, 128-bit SSL is only enabled when these browsers
connect with an SSL server which has a "supercert" issued with U.S. gov't
approval (mostly to U.S. banks).
So strong crypto is now available, via an easily applied patch, to the
most widely used export approved product.
Another approach that I have been playing with is the use of local crypto
proxies.
One would have a HTTP/SSL proxie that uses strong crypto and comes with
source code. One mearly connects their web borwser to their proxie and the
proxie handles all the crypto. For non crypto sites it would just pass the
pages and requests through unmolested.
I have also looked into adding SSH capabilities to this so even non-SSL
sites one can still tunnel via SSH for an encrypted link.
A similar approach can be used for addressing the weak S/MIME crypto
produced by NS, MS, et al.
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