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Re: IBM sues critics?
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In <[email protected]>, on 06/14/97
at 04:13 PM, John Young <[email protected]> said:
>Secret Squirrel wrote:
>>According to a usually reliable contact in a position to know, IBM Friday
>>filed a liable suit against the 11 authors of the study
>>titled "The risks of key recovery, key escrow and trusted third-party
>>encryption" plus their employers and the Centere for Democracy and
>>Technology, which sponsored the report. According to my contact, IBM
>>feels that the report directly targets their own key recovery system,
>>and falsely implies that it isn't reliable. They are asking for
>>unspecified damages.
>If this report is true it's worth taking a look at IBM's policy paper
>"The need for a global cryptographic policy framework" to understand why
>the key study report is such a threat to
>Blue's global market strategy:
> http://www.ibm.com/security/html/pp_global.html
>IBM's economic incentive to attack the report is substantial, not least
>because it hopes to garner the lion's share of global GAK --
>not that that's news.
Has there been any conformation on this?
I would like to get in touch with some of my contacts at IBM but would
like to have some info on this first.
Thanks,
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