Clear Session ID in SSLV3

1999-07-15 Thread Marcus J. Ranum
Does anyone have a pointer to why the session ID in SSLV3 is in the clear, rather than encrypted? I'm sure there's a good reason for it (audit? logging? other...?) but I'm trying to pin down exactly why it was done that way. Can anyone point me in the right direction? mjr. -- Marcus J. Ranum, CE

Relative use of SSLV3 versus SSLV2

1999-07-15 Thread Marcus J. Ranum
Does anyone out there have any statistics about usage of SSLV3 versus SSLV2? I'm trying to get a feeling for how much product support there needs to be for V2 -- is there even a significant user base for it anymore? Does anyone keep any measures of version usage?? mjr. -- Marcus J. Ranum, CEO, Ne

SAFE slowly moves forward -- could be acted on this month

1999-07-15 Thread Perry E. Metzger
A story on NEWS.COM says: Key fights on crypto exports in Congress By Courtney Macavinta Staff Writer, CNET News.com July 14, 1999, 3:40 p.m. PT The future of strict export controls on strong computer security products could be decided in key battles

A wee bit of spook-humor (was re S/MIME Freeware Library)

1999-07-15 Thread Robert Hettinga
Or at least a bad joke. (Excuse me, while I wipe the atomized remains of a latte off my monitor and keyboard...) Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 16:42:10 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Somebody Subject: S/MIME Freeware Library S/Mime Freeware Library http://

ANSI or DES 128 standard encryption routine

1999-07-15 Thread juanaused
I am a software developer and I have been tasked with replacing our current proprietary encryption routine with an ANSI or DES 128 standard encryption routine. I was asked to research whether or not there were any routines out there available that we could use.We would like to avoid codi