Crypto Sabots

[John Young <jya@pipeline.com>]

     American Banker, April 2, 1997:     

     Consortium Formed For Data Security 

     Carlisle, Pa.: The data encryption community has a new 
     advocacy group: the Cryptography Products Consortium. 

     Organized under the auspices of the National Computer
     Security Association, the consortium said it aims to "foster
     interoperability and transparency of cryptography products"
     and define and advance the common goals" of vendors and
     system integrators. 

     The charter members are many of the companies active in
     data security as it relates to electronic banking and
     commerce. They include the smart card manufacturers
     Gemplus and Schlumberger as well as BBN Corp., Cylink
     Corp., Pretty Good Privacy Inc., Rainbow Technologies Inc.,
     RSA Data Security Inc., Sterling Commerce, Trust
     Information Systems Inc., and V-One Corp. 

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