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Re: Escrow agencies closed?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Zmudzinski)
Fri Apr 18 12:32:21 1997
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 97 11:38:28 EST
From: "Tom Zmudzinski" <zmudzint@ncr.disa.mil>
To: cryptography@c2.net
I don't know about closing organizations within Treasury and Commerce,
but from sources in ASD(C3I) and NSA, I know that LEAF is dead within
DoD. Since it wasn't practical to delete the field, NSA has modified
the CAW to produce a dummy LEAF. [To be honest, I suspected that they
had done that to the Fortezza cards they use a *long* time ago.] vr/tez
=======================Generic .sigfile=======================
name@address
Full Name, Title, Organization
Joke and/or obscure philosophical comment
This .SIG file has been found to be adequate for normal business
contacts on the Internet, provided it is taken with a grain of
salt.
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Subject: Escrow agencies closed?
Author: smith@securecomputing.com (Rick Smith) at smtp
Date: 4/17/97 8:11 PM
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?
Rick.
smith@securecomputing.com
