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Re: PCS Encryption?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Mon Feb 3 09:56:47 1997

From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19970202034136.0071981c@pop.pipeline.com> from John Young at "Feb 1, 97 10:41:36 pm"
To: jya@pipeline.com (John Young)
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 18:18:50 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Doug_Merrill@rand.org, cryptography@c2.net

John Young wrote:
|    http://www.nsa.gov:8080/programs/missi/condor.html

# How secure is CONDOR?
# 
#      Current proof-of-concept hardware is FORTEZZA(TM) based
#	(sensitive but unclassified)  Product versions will use STU
# 	for cellular voice and FORTEZZA(TM) Plus for net broadcast
# 	mode and data  

	I was under the impression that Fortezza was ok for classified
traffic.  Did I miss the changeover, was it unannounced, or was I
simply misremembering?

Adam

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