'It's clear that something is amiss in the drafting of this treaty, and we'd go so far as to venture the opinion that a tired civil servant simply cut-and-pasted from a late-1990s security document,' news site Hackaday commented.

The document also recommends using 1024-bit RSA encryption and the SHA-1 hashing algorithm, which are both outdated and vulnerable to cyber-attacks. The text cites 'modern e-mail software packages including Outlook, Mozilla Mail as well as Netscape Communicator 4.x.' The latter two are now defunct - the last major release of Netscape Communicator was in 1997. It also recommends using systems that are now vulnerable to cyber-attacks. The references are on page 921 of the trade deal, in a section on encryption technology. Experts believe officials must have copied and pasted chunks of text from old legislation into the document.

References to decades-old computer software are included in the new Brexit agreement, including a description of Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Mail as being 'modern' services. Brexit deal mentions Netscape browser and Mozilla Mail

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