[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bengt Richter) writes: > Isn't the SSL dependent on OS or at least shared lib support?
Firefox has its own implementation. IE uses wininet which is built Windows. I'm not aware of any no-crypto version of Windows but even if there is one, the US version is running, like, everywhere. > Wasn't there a default 40-bit version that was ok (weak), but you had > to declare yourself US resident to download 128-bit support? That was years ago. The regulations changed since then, so they all have 128 bits now. > I dimly recall encountering this sort of thing installing Netscape > a long time ago, I think. Is 128 just standard now? And now that 128 > is wobbly(?), will the same thing be replayed with the ante upped? 128 isn't wobbly. It will be a long time before any machine can do 2**128 operations to break a message. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list