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Re: Starium announces STU-III for the masses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnold G. Reinhold)
Wed Apr 28 15:14:29 1999
In-Reply-To: <19990427105942.25200@slack.lne.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:00:18 -0400
To: Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net,
cryptography@c2.net
From: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
At 10:59 AM -0700 4/27/99, Eric Murray wrote:
>Starium (with cypherpunks Whit Diffie and Eric Blossom)
>announce an STU-III add-on for ~$100.
>
>http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19990423S0015
>
The article states that NSA uses 3DES and DH key exchange in its STU-III
products. My understanding is that STU-III uses NSA Type 1 algorithms and
conventional key distribution.
Arnold Reinhold
