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Re: VeriSign OK'd for strong-crypto exports (was Re: ECARM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard D. Murad)
Thu Mar 11 15:34:45 1999
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:50:07 -0500
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: "Richard D. Murad" <richard.murad@trw.com>
In-Reply-To: <v04020a13b30cb88939c1@[139.167.130.246]>
Does anybody know if any "strings" were attached to this?
Rick Murad
At 07:02 PM 3/10/99 -0500, Robert Hettinga wrote:
>At 2:00 PM -0500 on 3/10/99, ecarm-news@ecarm.org wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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>> 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/>
>44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
>"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
>[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
>experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
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