Mysk wrote: > > Good day folks, > > I do all of my banking online and I've been thinking back to the old NS > Communicator which had, I think it was, 526-bit SSL.
Never heard of 526-bit SSL, and I should know! The numbers commonly used to describe SSL are "40-bit" and "128-bit". There was also a short-lived 56-bit version. But today, all relatively modern versions of Netscape browsers (including Communicator 4.7 and up) are 128-bit (or more). > It was downloaded from some educational web site - Berkley was it? - and you > had to verify that you were from the states. This was many years ago so I > don't remember very clearly, sorry. This sounds like a description of Kerberos, which was (is?) available from M.I.T. That's a crypto package, and to access it you had to claim to be a U.S. citizen, but that isn't related to Netscape, Communicator, or SSL. It sounds like you're thinking of some kind of add-on for Communicator. Basically, any version of Communicator produced since mid-2000 hasn't needed any add-ons for crypto security. It's all in the base product. At one time, to download the domestic (128-bit) version of Communicator, you had to click on a page saying you were a U.S. citizen. But that was years ago. For a while, there was an add-on plug-in crypto enhancement package for Communicator 4.x, known as NSM. It was a fore-runner of PSM, the crypto package in Netscape 7. But AFAIK, it is no longer available. > At any rate, my point is, is it possible to still get this? I don't really know what you're looking for. > If so, will it work in Mozilla / Netscape? > Where do I go to get it? Odds are good that whatever crypto feature you want in already in mozilla 1.3. If you need it, Communicator 4.x is still available from Netscape. Start at ftp://ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/ Click your language, then click the version you want, then click the platform you have (e.g. Mac, Windows, Unix). Depending on the platform you choose, you may have to click through more platform choices. Eventually you choose whether you want a complete install or a basic install, and then finally you get to a directory with the installer and a file of installation directions. > I've been doing Google searches as well as searching the Netscape web site > but I'm finding nothing on it. I doubt that I've described exactly what you're looking for, but probably the thing you remember is no longer needed or available. > Thanks much in advance. -- Nelson Bolyard Communicator home page: about:nelsonb Disclaimer: I speak for myself, not for Netscape
