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Re: Starium announces STU-III for the masses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vin McLellan)
Wed Apr 28 14:11:24 1999
To: Eric Blossom <eb@starium.com>,
"Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
From: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
Cc: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net,
cryptography@c2.net
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:53:27 -0400
At 08:54 AM 4/28/99 -0700, Eric Blossom wrote:
>It appears the folks at EE Times didn't quite get the story straight.
>
>We are not building a STU-III compatible gadget. What we are building
>is a family of secure telephones and add-ons that implement what many
>people consider the most conservative cryptographic algorithms:
>Diffie-Hellman with a 2048-bit modulus combined with 3-key triple-DES.
>When the AES is selected, we'll offer that too.
Thanks, Eric. Had me scratching my head.
Last I heard the FIREFLY family of protocols used in STU-III remain classified.
Regards,
_Vin
>Eric Blossom
>Chief Technical Officer
>Starium, Ltd.
>
>
>
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