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Re: ODS can export... what?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Gillogly)
Wed Dec 23 11:44:10 1998
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 14:41:27 -0800
From: Jim Gillogly <jim@acm.org>
Reply-To: jim@acm.org
To: cryptography@c2.net
Robert Hettinga forwarded:
> "Network security specialists ODS Networks Inc. has won
> government approval to export its strong encryption products
> to companies in 42 countries without a government-backed key
> recovery feature. "
>
> http://www.eet.com/story/OEG19981222S0012
However, the cited article goes on to say:
The ODS products use an alternate ?stream recovery? feature that
allows users to protect encrypted data. The company said its
stream recovery scheme helps resolve conflicting
requirements for privacy and monitoring.
ODS said its objective was to introduce a monitoring capability
that protects the rights of innocent third parties in criminal
investigations.
Hard to say what this means (and a quick scan through their website
didn't turn up the "stream recovery" keyphrase, but it certainly
doesn't look like it means strong crypto, by which I mean messages
that only the sender and the intended receiver can read.
--
Jim Gillogly
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