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Re: ODS can export... what?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sunder)
Wed Dec 23 12:06:31 1998
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 11:49:04 -0500
From: Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>
To: jim@acm.org
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Jim Gillogly wrote:
>
> 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.
It means exactly what it says it means. Recovery features allow your users
to protect your encrypted data from getting your ass thrown in jail or worse
for using strong encryption which will soon be outlawed. It also allows the
good hackers access to your private information so that they may find
security holes and fix them for you for a small involuntary fee (i.e. also
updating your web pages, or borrowing the credit cards of your customers to
test them of course.)
Truth=Lies
Peace=War
Save us Big Brother.
It's not enough to fear Big Brother, you must learn to love him.
And now let's all join together in the two minutes of hate. Today's subject
is Strong Encryption. Encryption is bad. Anyone who uses it is an enemy of
the state.
> 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.
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