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VeriSign OK'd for strong-crypto exports (was Re: ECARM NEWS for
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Thu Mar 11 14:38:12 1999
In-Reply-To: <199903101900.OAA30601@marcella.ecarm.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:02:54 -0500
To: dcsb@ai.mit.edu, cryptography@c2.net
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
At 2:00 PM -0500 on 3/10/99, ecarm-news@ecarm.org wrote:
> Title: VeriSign OK'd for strong-crypto exports
> Resource Type: News Article
> Date: March 8, 1999, 12:10 p.m. PT
> Source: CNET News.com
> Author: Bloomberg News
> Keywords: EXPORT CONTROL ,ENCRYPTION ,SOFTWARE ,GOVT APPROVAL
>
> Abstract/Summary:
> VeriSign, a top maker of encryption software that keeps online
> transactions secure, said it was given approval by the government
> to sell strong versions of its software outside the United States,
> sending its shares to a record high.
>
> VeriSignsaid the Commerce Department's Bureau of Export
> Administration gave approval for it to sell 128-bit data
> encryption technology to overseas subsidiaries of U.S. companies,
> online merchants, and health-care and insurance organizations.
>
>
> Original URL: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,33447,00.html?pfv
>
> Added: Tue Mar 0 9:0:0 22:2 1999
> Contributed by: Keeffee
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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