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Re: Fortezza dying on the vine?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Smith)
Fri Jul 25 11:52:12 1997
In-Reply-To: <199707241403.KAA26584@sulphur.osf.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 10:35:12 -0600
To: Rich Salz <rsalz@opengroup.org>, cryptography@c2.net
From: Rick Smith <smith@securecomputing.com>
At 10:03 AM -0400 7/24/97, Rich Salz wrote:
>I'm seeing signs that DoD interest in Fortezza is waning.
The fact that portions of NSA are feverishly promoting "software Fortezza"
could also be taken as evidence. They have to break cherished traditions to
do it: declassify some crypto algorithms, and run the crypto in software.
This is major trauma and emits the smell of desperation.
Rick.
smith@securecomputing.com Secure Computing Corporation
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