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Re: Status of Fortezza and/or Smart Card Encryption Technology
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve McGee)
Sat Mar 27 01:34:37 1999
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 17:28:05 -0500
From: Steve McGee <stevemcgee@home.com>
To: "Arnold G. Reinhold" <reinhold@world.std.com>
Cc: roberts_teddy@bah.com, cryptography@c2.net
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http://www.jya.com/fort-cancel.htm
This URL is somewhat contradictory to what is written below.
"Arnold G. Reinhold" wrote:
> At 8:17 AM -0500 3/25/99, Roberts Teddy wrote:
> >Does anyone know what the current ((March 99) status of fortezza
> >encryption? The NSA waiver for using this card to protect classified
> >data over unclassifed networks has expired. Does this mean that
> >Fortezza no longer provides "adequate" protection for sensitive data?
> >Or...how strong is fortezza now?
> >
> > Are there any other cards presently out there that are sanctioned fo=
r
> >use to protect classified data over unclassified networks?
> >
>
> From NSA's home page: http://www.nsa.gov:8080/programs/missi/frt+.html
>
> >FORTEZZA=AE Plus (KOV-14)
> ...
> >
> >FORTEZZA Plus is an evolutionary member of the FORTEZZA PC card family=
,
> >providing additional security
> >capabilities. The Government algorithms employed in the FORTEZZA Plus =
card
> >can provide security services to
> >protect information of any classification level, although system secur=
ity
> >capabilities depend on many other
> >components. The FORTEZZA Plus algorithm set maintains backward
> >interoperability with the FORTEZZA Sensitive
> >But Unclassified (SBU) security services.
>
> See also Mykotronx's Fortezza Plus page:
> http://www.rnbo.com/MYKOWEB/fzplcard.htm
> The performance numbers are interesting.
>
> Arnold Reinhold
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