The Netscape/Microsoft browser wars in the mid-90's were really vicious and competitive. They really had it out for each other.Netscape had developed the SSL protocol. The initial version had cryptographic flaws and was broken pretty quickly, and never released. The first production version was SSL 2, which was in use for a few years. (I don't know the exact versions of Navigator it shipped in.)SSL 2 had some flaws, both cryptographic and practical; not dramatic enough to make replacing it a cri...