Re: what are realistic threats?

• To: masinter@parc.xerox.com
• Subject: Re: what are realistic threats?
• From: "Christian L. Mogensen" <mogens@cs.stanford.edu>
• Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 13:58:01 -0700 (PDT)
• Cc: hallam@dxal18.cern.ch, www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu
• In-Reply-To: <94Sep29.094804pdt.2760@golden.parc.xerox.com> from "Larry Masinter" at Sep 29, 94 09:47:55 am
• Reply-To: "Christian L. Mogensen" <mogens@cs.stanford.edu>

Larry Masinter writes:

> I expect every piece of freeware I get to come with an explicit
> disclaimer that the software comes AS IS and that there are no
> warrantees against bugs or misfeatures and no liability on the part of
> the producer, etc.  I'm not sure what the signature of the producer
> buys me.

That the copy you have matches the one that the author created.
Since there is little reason to suspect the NCSA of writing 
trojan horses, I would tend to trust a Mosaic distribution signed by 
the NCSA.  A distribution without the signature would be more suspect...

Christian "Key distribution is still a problem"

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• From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>

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