Re: Bug#67331: potato bugs

[Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au>]

>>>>> "Ethan" == Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:

    Ethan> no there is still weak and strong encryption versions of
    Ethan> netscape, you still must go though a click through page
    Ethan> stating that you are not downloading from Iraq or other
    Ethan> `terrorist' nation.

    Ethan> the debian packages are simply using the weak export
    Ethan> binaries instead of the strong crypto version.

I thought so.

    Ethan> so you either need fortify (not available) or you have to
    Ethan> download and install netscape manually (eschew the .debs).
    Ethan> i went halfway, downloaded the netscape tarball, extracted
    Ethan> the binary and replaced
    Ethan> /usr/lib/netscape/473/communicator/communicator-smotif.real
    Ethan> with the secure version.

So, that leaves three options for dealing with this bug:

a) fix fortify so it works???

b) navigator-smotif-nonus-472.deb????

c) wait for Mozilla??? (I assume it will be a while yet before this becomes
stable).

-- 
Brian May <bmay@csse.monash.edu.au>