Netscape and 40 bit encryption

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• Subject: Netscape and 40 bit encryption
• From: "Chuck Yerkes" <yerkes_chuck@jpmorgan.com>
• Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 13:14:06 -0500

First off, I'm a consultant, so I don't speak for my clients....

I'v been looking at the SSL implementation and the Netscape 
server and I'm finding that Authentication is done via a 
40 bit key.  It this right???

If so, breaking a 40bit key, especially when you know the first
work of the data, seems to me to be trivial - a network of Sun's
represents a fair amount of computing cycles, likely enough to
break this.

Am I off base on this?

chuck
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chuck yerkes         chuck@yerkes.com

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