At 10:52 AM -0700 on 10/13/02, Bill Stewart wrote:

> (You may not remember, but there was a program from fortify.net
> that "fixed" 40-bit implementations of Netscape,
> and there was even a one-liner Javascript signature-line program
> that let you set Netscape to use 128 bits...

Not to mention the plaintext settings imbedded in the Netscape *executable*.

"...it took you long enough", said a Netscape cypherpunk at the time of its
discovery...

Cheers,
RAH
Who saw them making the t-shirts, with pasted text from the file itself at
FC97, complete with "cypherpunks policy" on it...

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