Oh yes, I remember the article at hackaday.com.

Seems the document mentions a list of e-mail clients featuring secure transportation..

It's been a while since I used Netscape (Navigator 2.1?), but the Communicator was more than browser - it was a complete www suite, afaik.

Anyway, still kind of funny to see software mentioned that goes back by ~3 decades (2010s, 2000s, 1990s)..

Edit: I *think* SHA1 was chosen, because MD5 was considered obsolete at the time.
Speaking under correction, though.

I always have Netscape 8 or 9 installed in my main rig so I can remotely access old servers which don't play well with newer browsers.

Guess people were right when they said leaving the EU would mean UK would fall behind, don't think we were meant to go backwards though! 😉

Errius wrote on 2020-12-30, 09:18:

I always have Netscape 8 or 9 installed in my main rig so I can remotely access old servers which don't play well with newer browsers.

That's a really good ideal I'm stealing it! I used to have "WinXP mode" installed on my Win7 work laptop for the same reason (and just to have XP) but that's not an option anymore

Errius wrote on 2020-12-30, 09:18:

I always have Netscape 8 or 9 installed in my main rig so I can remotely access old servers which don't play well with newer browsers.

That's why I had got VMs installed when I still had got a Windows machine as my main PC.

So I could run IE 5.5, IE6, Netscapes, Operas, old FireFoxes etc. and see how they would behave and render pages on the old OSes tgey were commonly used with.