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Re: practical encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Thu Jul 23 14:18:21 1998
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 11:01:10 -0400
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807231343.JAA12394@pinotnoir.media.mit.edu>
Taler Elgamal makes pungent comments about practical
encryption in Netscape's recently disclosed 1997 presentation
to the feds for export approval of its crypto products.
http://jya.com/nscp-foia.htm
SSL gets a low mark from Taler, as do others, but strong
systems will not be approved for export the Netscape doc
shows.
For a July 20 news report on the topic:
http://jya.com/nsa-lsa.htm