Re: Integrating Encryption Module to Netscape

• To: Ronald van Kuijk <rvkuijk@atriserv.nl>
• Subject: Re: Integrating Encryption Module to Netscape
• From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
• Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 14:02:58 -0700
• CC: www-security <www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu>
• Organization: Netscape Communications Corp.
• References: <3176D1A6.6FD7@pc.jaring.my> <3177C031.65D8@atriserv.nl>
• Reply-To: jsw@netscape.com

Ronald van Kuijk wrote:
> 
> peng-chiew low wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Just wondering if anyone out there knows whether it is difficult to
> > integrate an encryption module to Netscape Commerce Server.
> >
> > We are *NOT* reinventing the wheel since only 40bits SSL are permitted
> > to be exported out of the U.S. and we need an additional security for
> > financial transactions. Thanks.
> 
> We need it to, but what I was wondering is why Netscape isn't
> doing this themselves: producing software outside the US, without using
> the RSAref library.

  It is not at all clear that it would be legal.  By sending the non-crypto
part of Netscape Navigator outside the US for the purposes of retrofitting
strong crypto, we may be commiting a criminal conspiracy to get around
the ITAR.  The whole thing is a horrible mess that makes little sense
to normal humans, and does not seem subject to logic.

	--Jeff

-- 
Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.

• Integrating Encryption Module to Netscape
• From: peng-chiew low <pclow@pc.jaring.my>
• Re: Integrating Encryption Module to Netscape
• From: Ronald van Kuijk <rvkuijk@atriserv.nl>

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