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Re: Status of Fortezza and/or Smart Card Encryption Technology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Fri Mar 26 14:26:35 1999
In-Reply-To: <36FA3761.22B2F0BA@bah.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 00:18:06 -0500
To: roberts_teddy@bah.com, cryptography@c2.net
From: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
At 8:17 AM -0500 3/25/99, Roberts Teddy wrote:
>Does anyone know what the current ((March 99) status of fortezza
>encryption? The NSA waiver for using this card to protect classified
>data over unclassifed networks has expired. Does this mean that
>Fortezza no longer provides "adequate" protection for sensitive data?
>Or...how strong is fortezza now?
>
> Are there any other cards presently out there that are sanctioned for
>use to protect classified data over unclassified networks?
>
=46rom NSA's home page: http://www.nsa.gov:8080/programs/missi/frt+.html
>FORTEZZA=AE Plus (KOV-14)
=2E..
>
>FORTEZZA Plus is an evolutionary member of the FORTEZZA PC card family,
>providing additional security
>capabilities. The Government algorithms employed in the FORTEZZA Plus card
>can provide security services to
>protect information of any classification level, although system security
>capabilities depend on many other
>components. The FORTEZZA Plus algorithm set maintains backward
>interoperability with the FORTEZZA Sensitive
>But Unclassified (SBU) security services.
See also Mykotronx's Fortezza Plus page:
http://www.rnbo.com/MYKOWEB/fzplcard.htm
The performance numbers are interesting.
Arnold Reinhold
