[742] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Full Strength Stronghold 2.0 Released Worldwide
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed May 7 20:42:32 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970506200412.00741304@netcom13.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 22:33:20 -0700
To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
At 8:04 PM -0700 5/6/97, Lucky Green wrote:
>Wrong assumption. It is not which KR features are needed. It is if KR is
>needed. I hold that KR is not needed in the enterprise. Despite what
>business has been told and now nearly universally assumes to be true.
The only place I can see needing CAK/GAK is for encrypted disks. The only
place those really make sense is on laptops which are taken off-site. (If
a company can't physically secure its desktop machines and internal
networks, then it has more problems than can be solved by disk encryption.
Networks going off-site can be secured with encryption, but this is
communication encryption, which all of us agree does not need CAK/GAK
because the cyphertext is not kept.)
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