Re: Key recovery/RSA/Bidzos/WTF?!?

[Declan McCullagh <declan@eff.org>]

PC World (at www.pcworld.com) has a radio interview with Bidzos, I'm 
told, probably in the same story for which they interviewed me.

-Declan


On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Walt Armour wrote:

> What's up with some of these press releases?
> 
> Can anyone clear up the confusion with RSA/Bidzos/Key recovery?
> 
> Here are some quotes:
> 
> =================
> 
> >From NYT:CyberTimes (2 Oct)
> "Clinton Encryption Plan Is Generating Resistance"
> 
> Executives of the International Business Machines Corp. said
> late Tuesday 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, Cylink and Trusted Information Systems. 
> 
> =================
> 
> >From NYT:CyberTimes (2 Oct)
> "Clinton Encryption Plan Is Generating Resistance"
> 
> "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 IBM
> that the National Security Agency would try to twist their
> technology." 
> 
> =================
> 
> >From BusinessWire (2 Oct)
> "JOINT PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT/ HIGH-TECH LEADERS JOIN FORCES TO
> ENABLE INTERNATIONAL STRONG ENCRYPTION"
> 
> "Export controls are a fact of life," said Jim Bidzos, president
> of RSA Data Security. "The key recovery alliance's approach will
> allow companies to use cryptography with differing levels of
> security in an interoperable way. When the alliance implements
> this technology it will give the user a new level of flexibility
> that did not exist before. In an imperfect world this technique
> will at least allow you to take advantage of what governments
> around the world will allow."
> 
> =================
> 
> So is RSA part of this or not? 
> Is the middle quote above mis-attributed?
> 
> walt
> 


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