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Re: Fortezza dying on the vine?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Thu Jul 24 22:49:15 1997
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 19:15:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Rich Salz <rsalz@opengroup.org>
cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199707241403.KAA26584@sulphur.osf.org>
The State department is using PGP for some overseas applications. Word
is that the NSA was quite unhappy to be told by State that
Fortezza just isn't up to par.
-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred
On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Rich Salz wrote:
> I'm seeing signs that DoD interest in Fortezza is waning. One software
> vendor no longer gets asked for it at sales meetings with the feds; a
> two-year Fortezza contract (like the NSA did with Netscape) was
> killed.
>
> Anyone else?
>
>
