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Re: CheckPoint Gets Full-strength SSL from RSA-Australia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Fri Apr 2 09:43:56 1999
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 09:48:37 -0500
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
Cc: firewalls@lists.gnac.net, firewall-wizards@nfr.net, coderpunks@toad.com,
cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <37011892.972D5585@shore.net>; from Vin McLellan on Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 02:31:46PM -0400
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 02:31:46PM -0400, Vin McLellan wrote:
| CheckPoint, based in Ramat-Gan, Israel, and RSA just announced that
| CheckPoint has licensed BSAFE SSL-C from RSA-Australia for FW-1.
| Pencil in another SSL option for international firms with firewalls
| and VPNs which may not fit the US Govt's standards as appropriate
| recipients of (industry-standard) cryptography strong enough to resist
| eavesdropping by the hundred-odd various signals intelligence agencies
| which sieve the ether and tap the international cables for tidbits of
| interest.
Has Checkpoint announced an export license for this from the
Israeli government? We (Netect) had to explain that no user data was
to be put inside the SSL bits to get an export license. It doesn't
seem that Checkpoint has this dodge, but they may be big enough to
push the export control authorities a bit.
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
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