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Re: OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption



Hmm, I tried fortify with netscape 4.05, but it says something about an
unknown version or such a thing.

On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote:

> You might be able to convert to 128-bit encryption using fortify.  See
> www.fortify.net.  I haven't tried it on the libc6 version of netscape,
> however it works fine on the libc5 version. 
> 
> On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Nick Cabatoff wrote:
> 
> > I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they
> > seem pretty MS-Windows oriented.  I'm guessing many of you have had a
> > similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the
> > lists.)
> > 
> > Netscape 4.06 with 128-bit encryption is only available from the
> > netscape web site after filling out forms giving your address, etc.
> > Unfortunately it's linked with libc5; for various reasons I won't go
> > into here this is unsatisfactory for us.
> > 
> > It is possible to get 4.06 linked with libc6 from the ftp site; however,
> > this is the export version which only has 40-bit encryption, and which
> > we'd prefer not to be stuck with.
> > 
> > Has anyone succeeded in downloading a 4.x/non-export release linked with
> > libc6?
> > 
> > 
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