SSL2 existed in Netscape 0.94, IIRC. I know that version had the blue bar and skeleton-key icon, as I used it a fair amount when I was in college.
As for evidence, I believe you can find it on the old SSLeay list archives (pre-OpenSSL). That is where I first heard of the issue. -Kyle H On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Nelson B Bolyard <nel...@bolyard.me> wrote: > Kyle Hamilton wrote, On 2008-12-30 04:13 PST: > >> (in fact, it wasn't until a LOT of people got infuriated at Netscape >> over the Verisign tax that other CAs were even allowed into the >> program > > Do you have any evidence to support that claim? SSL2 was introduced in > Navigator 2, and there were many CAs in place in Navigator 3. > >> -- but every one of them was vetted to the same extent Verisign was. > > Yes. Each CA that was willing to pay the price for admission got its > certs admitted. That price was widely believed to be USD 100K. > This was a large source of funding for the development of SSL. > _______________________________________________ > dev-tech-crypto mailing list > dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto > _______________________________________________ dev-tech-crypto mailing list dev-tech-crypto@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-crypto
