Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 12:39:10 +0000 From: stuart henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Netscape Message-ID: <34FAA86E.83980562@internationalschool.co.uk>
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I read this in the TBTF mailing list (copy at http://www.tbtf.com/archive/03-02-98.html) and thought I'd copy it here for anyone that might be interested. --cut here-- ..Netscape crypto easily boosted to full strength An Australian doing business as Fortify.net [5] is distributing a program for Unix and Win-32 (containing no crypto code) with which anyone can convert their export copy of Netscape Navigator into a US-strength, 128-bit version. Netly News coverage [6] paints the Feds pacing and gnashing their teeth over the development, which breaks no laws. At the Financial Cryptography conference in An- guilla, attendees ran a contest for the most compact perl code to effect this transformation ("Run this on your export version of netscape 4.04 to enable strong crypto!"). Ian Goldberg, who through his connection with the conference sports the world's coolest email address -- n@ai -- posted a 99-byte essay, only to be trumped by a Russian programmer who shaved it by 15 bytes. The result: #!/usr/bin/perl -0777pi s/(TS:.*?0)/$_=$1;y,a-z, ,;s, $,true,gm;s, 512,2048,;$_/es; [5] http://www.fortify.net/ [6] http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/opinion/0,1042,1767,00.html --cut here-- (Search the executable file for "SSL2-RC4-128-EXPORT40-WITH-MD5." and change the "false" and "conditional" entries in the export policy table to "true"). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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