Re: Crypto Exports, Europe, and Conspiracy Theories

[cme@cybercash.com (Carl Ellison)]

At 11:06 1/26/96, Adam Shostack wrote:
>Timothy C. May wrote:
>
>| You have to ask yourself this question: "Why are there no cryptographically
>| strong products--finished products, not specific ciphers or chunks of
>| code--developed in Europe and freely imported into the U.S.?"
>
>	There are.  If you buy a Gauntlet Internet firewall from TIS,
>you can also buy a German T1 speed DES card for it.  I believe the
>code was written by TIS's London office.  The Israeli Firewall-1
>(version 2) firewall offers VPN (Virtual Private Networks) with some
>decent encryption scheme.

The German company is CE Infosys -- and they make a PCMCIA DES card also, BTW.
The PC card is a decent performer but I haven't tested speed (of the interface)
for the PCMCIA card.

The code driving the card was written in Glenwood MD.  The Gauntlet
uses normal SWIPE protocol.  It can not be exported at this time.

However, there is a plan afoot at TIS to produce a version of Gauntlet
with full 56-bit DES SWIPE -- but with TIS CKE added to the communication
stream and therefore making the product exportable.

For more information, you can check TIS's web page www.tis.com

 - Carl

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