Re: HP announcing some International Cryptography stuff on Monday

[Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu>]

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frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz) writes:
> At 12:05 PM 11/15/96 -0800, John Gilmore wrote:
> >Are they the next Big Company to knuckle under to the Feds?  Their
> >pcmcia-with-local-country-surveillance-chip-socket initiative never
> >seemed to go anywhere.
> 
> Since I am inherently optimistic, one ray of light may be that the San Jose
> Mercury News was mentioning the ability to export the system, and then when
> the necessary licenses (US and foreign) were obtained, turn on the
> encryption.  I guess from this that the encryption is in hardware.  Now,
> software/hardware interfaces are usually fairly simple, so what we have
> here is a software system with a crypto hook.

So what if the "license" is really the key? Sure, it would be
possible to generate your own kwys, but it's possible to export strong
crypto. Large commercial interests tend not to want to run afoul of
the USG. 

Jer

"standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew
 why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole

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