Scott and Fellow Troups,
Bad news and perhaps good news for 68k owners... Look what I found in the
README for Fortify.
http://www.fortify.net/README_main.html
Note the line: "MacOS PowerPC versions only, version v4.06 onwards only."
Fortify README Clip:
What versions of Netscape does it support?
The current release of Fortify supports all of the following non-beta
Netscape browsers (English edition):-
Navigator Standard verns 2.02, 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04
Navigator Gold verns 3.01, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04
Navigator Lite (stand-alone) verns 4.02 to 4.08, 4.05-JDK1.1, 4.5, 4.51,
4.6, 4.61, 4.7, 4.72
Communicator verns 4.01 to 4.08, 4.05-JDK1.1, 4.5, 4.51, 4.6, 4.61, 4.7, 4.72
that were released for the following platforms:-
DEC-OSF + Dec UNIX (Alpha systems)
HP-UX 10.x (HPPA systems) (Note C)
IBM AIX 4.x (RS6000 systems) (Note C)
SGI Irix 5.x and 6.x (Mips systems)
Sun Solaris 2.4 and 2.5.1 (Sparc systems)
Sun Solaris 2.4 and 2.5.1 (Intel x86 systems)
Sun SunOS 4.1.3_U1 (Sparc systems)
BSD, FreeBSD, BSDI (Intel x86 systems) (Note A)
Linux-Elf and Linux-glibc2 (Intel x86 systems)
MKLinux and LinuxPPC (PowerPC systems)
Microsoft Windows 95/98 and Windows NT (Intel x86 systems)
IBM OS/2 (Intel x86 systems) (Note B)
Apple Mac OS (PowerPC systems) (Note D)
Note A: BSD versions v3.01, v3.03-gold, v3.04, and v4.04 onwards only.
Note B: OS/2 version v2.02 (svc lvl 4,7,8), 4.04 (svc lvl 5,6,fixpack1),
and 4.61
Note C: On these operating systems, version v4.06 onwards only.
Note D: MacOS PowerPC versions only, version v4.06 onwards only.
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GOOD NEWS? The paragraph before the above:
But aren't the 128-bit versions of Communicator available outside the U.S.?
Yes. In January 2000, the U.S. Government relaxed export regulations over
certain classes of mass-market encryption products. In line with these
changes, Netscape has made the strong-crypto versions of Communicator and
Navigator available worldwide. If you download one of these browsers from
the Netscape servers, then you will not need Fortify for Netscape.
The full details and effects of this change are explained further here.
http://www.fortify.net/updateJan2000_main.html (I haven't read this page)
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Toward the end of the lengthy README are instructions for various Web tests
to see what your Netscape is capable of...
The BIG question... WHICH are the "strong-crypto versions" on the Netscape
site?
The link:
http://home.netscape.com/download/0222101/10002-en-mac68k7.6.1-4.08-base-128
_qual.html
Yes? No? 7.6.1 Only! "But it's a niche." - anonymous Mac Ecologist
Anyone actually download this thing and test it? It would take me hours
here in "Cyberia" :-(
And at the end of this README is a great history of cracking the earlier
codes. Hats off to the Aussies who did this!
Good discussion...
OJ "You-ever-try-to-access-your-US-bank-account-from-Siberia" Lougheed;
Irkutsk, Siberia
Long Live 68K Macs!
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