Annex of Brexit contract suggests use of Netscape Navigator for encryption [pdf]

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See page 931

I don't understand the issue. The old treaty was reused as a base document, word for word, which is standard practice to preserve jurisprudence.

And netscape navigator is only referred as an example of software which supports MIME types.

I think the preceding part is more worrying:

– the sequence of the operations is: first encryption and then signing, – the encryption algorithm AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with 256 bit key length and RSA with 1024 bit key length shall be applied for symmetric and asymmetric encryption respectively, – the hash algorithm SHA-1 shall be applied.

Really?

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