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RE: Escrow agencies closed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Layten)
Fri Apr 18 12:10:16 1997
From: Larry Layten <larry@ljl.com>
To: Rick Smith <smith@securecomputing.com>,
"'Black Unicorn'" <unicorn@polaris.mindport.net>
Cc: "cryptography@c2.net" <cryptography@c2.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 06:11:32 -0500
It is true that key escrow has been terminated for the FORTEZZA
cards, and also that new firmware is being loaded to existing cards
that does not support LEAF.
There is a statement on a DOD site that I will post when I get to
work and find it, but it lacks details.
Larry
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From: Black Unicorn[SMTP:unicorn@polaris.mindport.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 1997 7:11 PM
To: Rick Smith
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Subject: Re: Escrow agencies closed?
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Rick Smith wrote:
> Someone just told me that the Clipper/Capstone/Fortezza escrow
> organizations were shut down at the Treasury and Commerce, and that they're
> currently stripping the LEAF support out of the Fortezza cards. Evidently
> this happened a couple of months ago.
>
> Has anyone seen an announcement anywhere?
I can confirm that this was being seriously considered some time ago. I
never followed up but will attempt to do so tommorow.
>
> Rick.
> smith@securecomputing.com
>
>
>
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