NODE ecd52744Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] eCash reality !!
shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)Tue, 17 Oct 95 20:09:22 PDT
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In article <3R85cD1w165w@berserk.com>, usura@berserk.com (Alex de Joode) wrote:
> e-WAVE [issue 42], a dutch language electronic newsletter
> published by Riverland Publications, reports that DigiCash
> has reached agreement with a big US bank to make eCash real.
>
> DigiCash promised the 'scoop' to Newsweek, so in next monday's
> issue of Newsweek we will know wich bank that is. (They are also
> said to be talking with a Dutch or Belgian bank or financial
> institution).
>
> Since there has been cut a deal with the monetary powers I wonder
> if we get the whole anonymous ecash or a 'diluted spieces'.
It will have the same features as the Ecash used in the trial. Payer is
anonymous, but the payee isn't. I hope that I'll be able to finish some
perl scripts that add this badly needed, but for political reasons
missing, feature by the end of the month.
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NODE 90e5d3b6A comment about Netscape 2 and certifictes
Eric Young <eay@mincom.oz.au>Tue, 17 Oct 95 22:49:36 PDT
Just some more noise about netscape 2,
I have been playing around with netscape 2b1 and have extracted the
certificates it trusts from the cert.db file. (The file is a Berkeley DB
file and the certificates have a 7 byte prefix and a trailing printable
string). They are as follows
/C=US/O=AT&T/OU=Certification Authority
/C=US/O=AT&T Bell Laboratories/OU=Prototype Research CA
/C=US/SP=California/O=CommerceNet/OU=Server Certification Authority
/C=US/O=MCI/OU=internetMCI/OU=MALL
/C=US/OU=Test CA/O=Netscape Communications Corp.
/C=US/O=RSA Data Security, Inc./OU=Commercial Certification Authority
/C=US/O=RSA Data Security, Inc./OU=Secure Server Certification Authority
The one unusual thing is that the CA for /OU=internetMCI/OU=MALL is missing
subject=/C=US/O=MCI/OU=internetMCI/OU=MALL
issuer= /C=US/O=MCI/OU=internetMCI/OU=PCA <<<<<<<
(the ComerceNet is signed by one of the RSA certificates)
The CommerceNet certificate is only using a 678 bit RSA modulus, the other
certificates are either 1000 or 1024 bits long.
If anyone wants the certificates I can send them.
eric
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NODE 0098c4acRe: A comment about Netscape 2 and certifictes
Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>Tue, 17 Oct 95 23:12:19 PDT
This is exactly the same list that was in Netscape 1.x. The
commercenet CA only appeared in 1.2 and the 1.22/1.12 security
update. This list will change before 2.0 is released.
--Jeff
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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.