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New DoD encryption mandate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Aug 15 10:43:19 2007
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:24:30 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
According to http://www.fcw.com/article103467-08-13-07-Print the US
Defense Department has mandated that all sensitive but unclassified
information on mobile devices must be encrypted in compliance with FIPS
140-2. "Mobile devices" include laptops, PDAs, CDs, flash drives, etc.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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