[107950] in Cypherpunks
Fwd: the carrick online server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Fri Jan 29 15:00:02 1999
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:36:31 -0500
To: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, dcsb@ai.mit.edu
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:15:26 -0800
To: mac-crypto@vmeng.com
From: Vinnie Moscaritolo <vinnie@vmeng.com>
Subject: Fwd: the carrick online server
Sender: <mac-crypto@vmeng.com>
> The Encryption Export Restrictions Don't
> Matter Any More
> January 28, 1999
> CONTACT: Tim Rothrock, Vice President Sales
> Azalea Software, Inc.
> tim@encryption.com
> 1 800 ENCRYPT
> SEATTLE-Azalea Software, Inc. announced that http://www.encryption.com now
> hosts the carrick online server. The carrick online server encrypts files
> through your browser for free, effectively eliminating the current U.S.
> export restrictions covering strong encryption software. This technology
> showcase highlights one of the many things you can do using the carrick
> encryption toolkits.
> The carrick online server allows you to upload a file and a password to the
> server securely using SSL. The file is encrypted or decrypted on the server,
> ready for you to download. Because the encryption engine itself resides on
> Azalea Software's web server in Seattle, nothing is exported. Exporting
> encrypted files isn't covered by export restrictions, only encryption
> engines. Therefore, internet users around the world can use the carrick
> online server legally.
> "The U.S. government has been a hinderance to the widespread adoption of
> strong encryption. As more and more of our lives are digitized, the need for
> secure storage and transmission of data increases. By limiting the strength
> of encryption software that can be exported, our government has tied the
> hands of the domestic software industry." says Jerry Whiting, President of
> Azalea Software, Inc. "It's like the government dictating that all
> correspondence be written on postcards, not letters inside of envelopes.
> Encryption makes the internet stronger for all of us."
> The carrick online server is hosted on a co-located WindowsNT box running
> Active Server Pages calling a carrick DLL. The carrick online server uses
> Blowfish with a 448-bit key length and can be licensed from Azalea Software,
> Inc. for intranet and internet servers.
> carrick is a family of encryption and cryptography SDKs that allow software
> developers to incorporate industrial-strength encryption into their
> projects. The various carrick toolkits are based on algorithms like
> Blowfish, DES, and SHA-1. carrick has its own API and file format.
> Founded in 1992, Azalea Software began as a digital type foundry
> specializing in bar code and OCR fonts with products available for Microsoft
> Windows, the Macintosh, UNIX, and other platforms. Sherwin-Williams,
> Time-Life, Paramount Pictures, Harley-Davidson, Barnes & Noble, and General
> Motors are among Azalea's customers. Hewlett-Packard has licensed the Azalea
> font library.
> carrick and the carrick logo are trademarks of Azalea Software, Inc.
> All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their
> respective owners.
Vinnie Moscaritolo
http://www.vmeng.com/vinnie/
Fingerprint: 3F903472C3AF622D5D918D9BD8B100090B3EF042
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Those who hammer their swords into plows,
will plow for those who don't."
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
