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I am using Linux with netscape 4.07.  I tried to connect to a website
and I got the message

This Server requires 128 -bit SSL. Please contact your Local LAN
administrator to obtain US-only version
of this browser. Do not e-mail the Webmaster!

Where do I get this software for Linux?

Thanks

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Ralph "Chip" Blach
KF4WBK
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

You need to get the 128-bit Netscape from

        http://www.netscape.com/download/

You don't need any other changes to your Linux system.

Note that there is something called "fortify" that can upgrade a 40-bit
Netscape (what you have) to the 128-bit Netscape. I have never used it,
but if you can find it it will probably be a much smaller download (if
that makes a difference to you).

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# >
# > I am using Linux with netscape 4.07.  I tried to connect to a website
# > and I got the message
# >
# > This Server requires 128 -bit SSL. Please contact your Local LAN
# > administrator to obtain US-only version
# > of this browser. Do not e-mail the Webmaster!
# >
# > Where do I get this software for Linux?
# >
#
# You need to get the 128-bit Netscape from
#
#         http://www.netscape.com/download/
#
# You don't need any other changes to your Linux system.
#
# Note that there is something called "fortify" that can upgrade a 40-bit
# Netscape (what you have) to the 128-bit Netscape. I have never used it,
# but if you can find it it will probably be a much smaller download (if
# that makes a difference to you).

You should be able to just run a "simple" little perl program to activate
128-bit encryption on your Netscape browser.

The following program first appeared in The Perl Journal #9.  Well, it was
probably elsewhere before that.  I edited it because in my 4.5 binary, the
text "TS:" matched "HINTS:" and was only supposed to match "BITS:".

#!/usr/bin/perl -0777pi
s/BITS:.*?\0/$_=$&;y,a-z, ,;s,    $,true,gm;s, 512,2048,;$_/es

Just save that as "ns-128" or something and run (on a COPY of your binary!):

  % ns-128 /usr/bin/netscape-copy

It seemed to work for me, on Linux for Intel and LinuxPPC.

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%PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10  1FF77F13 8180B6B6'])

Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. a crit:

http://www.fortify.net