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The Internet WorkHorse

From MarketNet 

The Internet WorkHorse is under development by MarketNet. It is being released for beta test. It
has been tested with Windows 95 and has passed the full key generation testing. 

What is WorkHorse?

A program written for MarketNet to facilitate Internet Commerce. The program requires
Microsoft Windows 3.1 with a WINSOCK.DLL (such as Trumpet). The program includes the
following features: 

     128 bit RC4 available - MarketNet are now making the fully secure 128 bit SSL protocol
     available outside the US. Netscape have been forbidden to export the 128 bit protocol by
     the US government. This means that UK companies can neither import the secure server nor
     can individuals purchase copies of the secure client. MarketNet have developed the
     browser in Internet WorkHorse to allow people to have a secure client. The MarketNet
     server will operate 128 bit RC4 if required. 
     The Browser in Internet WorkHorse is not as good as Netscape for browsing, but it does
     allow the fully secure protocol to be used. It can also be used to link between secure servers
     in the US and sites outside the US. 
     Security Level Indicators both the browser and the Marketnet servers have a security
     level indicator that tells you what level of RC4 implementation is being used and also the
     length of the RSA key being used by the SSL implementation. 
     Electronic Cheques - in accordance with the MarketNet Internet Draft WorkHorse will
     generate Electronic instructions and sign them. Using WorkHorse people can also check the
     signature on electronic instructions that they receive. 
     Secure Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - with the SSL protocol applied to mail transmissions
     WorkHorse can ensure that mail is transferred from machine to machine through the internet
     without people being able to identify credit card numbers or personal information.
     Unlike PEM or PGP the transmission itself is encrypted the protocols used are SMTP and
     SSL 
     PGP Compatibility - As well as SSMTP the program will include a limited amount of PGP
     compatibility to enable the receipt and transmission of PGP encrypted mail. We will also
     allow a PGP format for signing electronic instructions. 
     HTML browsing. A text HTML browser with SSL and form filling capabilities. It does deal
     with images, but not very well. 
     Internet Toolbox. A big number hexadecimal calculator and BER decoding routines using
     the Windows clipboard to assist developers in viewing secure documents. 
     HTML Extensions. To enable effective usage of the above a number of extensions to
     HTML have been parsed in workhorse. 
     Conference Server - Workhorse will operate as a conference server allowing
     communications (chats) between a number of participants through TCPIP. 

SSMTP - Secure Simple Mail Transmission Protocol

SSMTP uses port 465 to open a secure SMTP session using the SSL protocol. The mail is then
transferred using SMTP. Normal MX records are used to determine target mail servers.
WorkHorse will act as a client or server. POP3 implementation for WorkHorse is scheduled for
the future. 

General Comments about SSL

WorkHorse has built into it a level of implementation of SSL. It will talk to Netsite secure servers
using SSL. It will also talk to the MarketNet secure server using SSL. The difference between
WorkHorse and NetScape is that WorkHorse does not validate the server certificate. See Info
about experimental serving 



   How do you get it

http://images.mkn.co.uk/zipfiles/horse.zip is a zip file. It is around 350K and expands to around
700K. If you have any comments please email info@mkn.co.uk. Special Test Routines