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by sonotmyname 2003 days ago
> there may be a business opportunity here to set up VMs running Win95/Netscape Communicator for use by all the civil servants looking to comply with the law.

The text quoted in the linked article in no way mandates the use of Netscape Navigator or Mozilla Mail - it merely references them as being widely distributed software capable of using RSA 1024 and SHA-1 (which it does appear to mandate).

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It does mention AES-256. The pairing of that with SHA-1 and RSA-1024 is peculiar.