[47985] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crippled Notes export encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Barber)
Thu Jan 25 10:30:38 1996
From: Jeff Barber <jeffb@sware.com>
To: tighe@spectrum.titan.com
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 10:55:35 -0500 (EST)
Cc: jsw@netscape.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601251504.JAA04039@softserv.tcst.com> from "Mike Tighe" at Jan 25, 96 09:04:46 am
Mike Tighe writes:
> 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.
I think you may be confused. I do recall a report that some NSA folks
visited NCSA and recommended they remove crypto hooks from the NCSA httpd.
Is this maybe what you're thinking of?
-- Jeff
