Re: Crippled Notes export encryption

[Jeff Barber <jeffb@sware.com>]

Mike Tighe writes:
> Jeff Weinstein writes:

> >> Didn't Netscape already promise to remove the hooks? It seems to me all of
> >> the major software players are already in bed with the government.
> >
> >  What do you mean by "promise to remove the hooks"?
> 
> I mean they planned to have some type of crypto, but then after a visit
> from the USG, they removed that plan, and even withdrew the interface so
> that someone else couldn't "drop in" the crypto. The press release
> describing it was within the past 12 months or so. I will find it
> eventually.

I think you may be confused.  I do recall a report that some NSA folks
visited NCSA and recommended they remove crypto hooks from the NCSA httpd.
Is this maybe what you're thinking of?


-- Jeff