[47999] in Cypherpunks
RE: Microsoft's CryptoAPI - thoughts?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (geeman@best.com)
Thu Jan 25 12:11:44 1996
From: geeman@best.com
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 96 10:26:59 0
Reply-To: geeman@best.com
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
To: rickt@psisa.com (Rick Tait)
>What does everyone think about this? Perhaps I already missed the boat, but
>I just found out about it. How would international apps work? Would a data
>file encrypted with an app compiled with a US-only CSP (cryptographic
>service provider) be able to be loaded by a European equivalent app?
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>[Info can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/inttech/cryptapi.htm]
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>rickt@psa.pencom.com
>egalitarian, philosopher, unix cowboy, '68 chevy pickup hacker
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To which I would like to generalize: what do you (all those with an opinion on the matter) think/feel/intuit
about general crypto API's overall? How would you compare some of the simultaneous threads of
development going on now in different orgs? Any strong positions out there?
