Re: NYT on IBM GAK

[Rich Burroughs <richieb@teleport.com>]

At 11:14 AM 10/2/96 GMT, jya@pipeline.com (John Young) wrote:
>   The New York Times, October 2, 1996, pp. D1, D8. 
> 
> 
>   Compromise Is Offered on Computer Security Codes 
> 
>   By John Markoff 

[snip]
>   Executives of the International Business Machines 
>   Corporation said late yesterday that they were still lining 
>   up the final list of companies in the alliance. Those 
>   involved will include Digital Equipment and smaller 
>   data-security companies including RSA Data Security, Cylink 
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>   and Trusted Information Systems. 
[snip]

>   "The Government announcement is disastrous," said Jim 
>   Bidzos, chief executive of RSA Data Security, one of the 
>   country's leading developers of data-scrambling software. 
>   "We warned I.B.M. that the National Security Agency would 
>   try to twist their technology." 
[snip]

Isn't there at least a slight contradiction here?  Hello, Mr. Markoff?  Is
RSA really involved in this "alliance" (read "sell out") or did IBM just
throw out their name?

Inquiring minds want to know...



Rich


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