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Re: Top Pentagon official...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Mon Aug 3 10:54:09 1998
In-Reply-To: <199807311457.KAA07392@dewdrop2.mindspring.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 08:48:43 -0400
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>, "Stephen Cobb, CISSP" <stephen@iu.net>
From: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
At 10:51 AM -0400 7/31/98, John Young wrote:
>See Hamre's full talk:
>
> http://jya.com/dod072198.htm
>
This speech is well worth reading. It makes a strong case that the FBI is
holding the nation's security hostage to get it's way on encryption.
Mr. Hambre and the DOD desperately need a public key infrastructure. Not
only is increasingly DOD dependent on unclassified communication systems
that are vulnerable to cyber attack, but it runs a massive data processing
shop that is hopelessly out of date and cannot be reformed without a
working PKI. Hambre estimates a potential 2.5 Billion dollar a year
saving. In a time of tight budgets, that translates into depriving our
troops of the latest weapons, ammunition and training.
Arnold Reinhold
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