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Azalea Software/Carrick Online Server?????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard D. Murad)
Wed Mar 3 12:45:39 1999
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 09:01:32 -0500
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: "Richard D. Murad" <richard.murad@trw.com>
[It all sounds very bizarre and snake-oily to me.... --Perry]
At the DATA COMMUNICATIONS web site at
http://www.data.com/story/DCM19990225S0004
there is a story titled , "Vendor Offers Way Around Encryption
Restriction", dated 2/25/99.
It describes a product by Azalea Software called the "Carrick Online
Server" which claims to circumvent US export restrictions. The story
claims that their product allows users to use 448 bit Blowfish on US soil
and then ship the encrypted file outside the country.
The story further claims that the actual encryption is not done locally,
but at the Carrick Online Server, with the original plain text sent to the
server using SSL.
All in all, I had trouble trying to figure out what the product does and if
in fact it has really succeeded circumventing the export laws (which I doubt).
Anyone know anything about this product?
Thanks
Rick Murad
