Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 21:23:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV Cc: tlt@tltodd.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netscape Communicator 4.07 for Linux20 Message-ID: <199810141923.VAA23509@internal> In-Reply-To: <199810130105.SAA04297@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> from "Bruce A. Mah" at "Oct 12, 1998 6: 5:39 pm"
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> If memory serves me right, Terry Todd wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 12:46:35PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> > > On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Tetsuya Watanabe wrote:
>
> > > > Is it possible to run Netscape Communicator 4.07 for Linux20 on FreeBSD
> > > > 2.2.5 or better with Linux emulation?
> > >
> > > I haven't heard anyone say you couldn't. Just make sure you have the
> > > linux emulator loaded and have the latest library pack installed...
>
> I regularly run the Linux version of Communicator 4.07 with US encryption in
> emulation (on 2.2.7-RELEASE). Works very nicely, although my machine tends to
> swap a bit more than it would otherwise, due to the need to keep both Linux
> and BSD libraries in memory.
>
> > Or better yet why not just go to Netscape's ftp site and get 4.08
> > netscape for FreeBSD.
>
> One "why not" for me, anyways, is that there's no such thing as a US
> encryption release for FreeBSD, and for some work I do, that's a "must have".
>
> (Rant on encryption politics omitted...)
Pipe any exportable netscape 4.0x through the following program and
you get strong encryption. That's what I do always with the 40-bit
versions for HP-UX, FreeBSD, IRIX, SunOS and even Winblows. It keeps
me from having to wait until fortify comes out...
---------------------- snip --------------------------
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -0pi
s/BITS:.*/$_=$&;y,a-z, ,;s, {4}$,true,gm;s, 512,2048,;$_/es
---------------------- snap --------------------------
-Andre
P.S.: This thing was not developed by me, it was posted to the list
a while ago :-)
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