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A roundup of press reports on GAK:
"IBM, other firms, in data encryption alliance"
The consortium was initiated by IBM. "Export controls
are a fact of life," said Jim Bidzos.
"U.S. To Loosen Computer Code Restrictions"
"It's wrongheaded, and it's going backward," Peter
Harter, at Netscape, said.
"U.S. Export of High-Tech Devices Planned"
CDT's Danny Weitzner said U.S. companies' and
citizens' encrypted communications sent over the
Internet could be vulnerable to "improper foreign
government access."
The administration doesn't want that to happen and is
working with major trading partners and other
countries to adopt plans that are consistent with the
U.S. plan and to expedite electronic key recovery by
law enforcement, the CIA's Deutch said.
"IT Execs, Lawmakers Reactions Mixed on Encryption Plan"
Rick Cardona, a security technology engineer at
security software maker TradeWave Corp., said the law
doesn't go far enough. "I think this is part of a
trend. It's only a matter of time before the
government will allow exports of 128-bit key
software."
"NCR Corp. Joins Alliance To Develop Exportable,
Worldwide Strong Encryption "
"We also look forward to the rapid movement of the
work of the alliance into an established standards-
based consortium body."
"TradeWave meets new government data encryption
requirements"
Although other Internet software security companies
have announced their intention to support this new
key-recovery requirement, no other Internet Web
security software company currently offers this
service to its customers besides TradeWave.
TradeWave's current customers, which include over 350
electric power companies representing over 70% of the
electric power industry, are using the TradeVPI
software and services which include this key recovery
feature.
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