Re: LYNX-DEV more about wells fargo, schwab

[Personal]

"Brian Tillman" <address@hidden> writes:
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>This certainly doesn't address the other point I made.  It also doesn't
>address how the server side is going to _know_ that the Navigator that is
>connecting to it is one of the publicly-derived ones or a Netscape-built
>ones, or, in fact, that it's Navigator at all, since someone with the
>source will be able to mimic any agent s/he wishes.  You seem to miss the
>point that once Navigator source is available, it can no longer be trusted

And you seem to miss my point that the publicly availible Netscape code
_WILL HAVE NO SSL AT ALL_ and so binaries built from it will _not do SSL_!
Only binaries distributed by Netscape, with the SSL added back in, or home
hacked dirivitive works will have SSL, so Wells Fargo is likely to stay 
happy with things as they are. If you hack SSL into Netscape's code, and
call it Netscape, you are in the same boat as someone who forges Netscape's
identifier in Lynx, not WF's concern. Only binaries from Netscape will have
Netscape's SSL, and so will be as safe as they are (or are not) now.

Scott

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