[47983] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crippled Notes export encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Tighe)
Thu Jan 25 10:08:41 1996
From: Mike Tighe <tighe@spectrum.titan.com>
To: jsw@netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 09:04:46 -0600 (CST)
Cc: tighe@spectrum.titan.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: tighe@spectrum.titan.com
In-Reply-To: <3106A21E.33E3@netscape.com> from "Jeff Weinstein" at Jan 24, 96 01:18:22 pm
Jeff Weinstein writes:
>> Didn't Netscape already promise to remove the hooks? It seems to me all of
>> the major software players are already in bed with the government.
>
> What do you mean by "promise to remove the hooks"?
I mean they planned to have some type of crypto, but then after a visit
from the USG, they removed that plan, and even withdrew the interface so
that someone else couldn't "drop in" the crypto. The press release
describing it was within the past 12 months or so. I will find it
eventually.
