[11661] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Clinton Adminsitration Corporate Network Socialism?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marvin Sirbu)
Wed Apr 13 02:17:00 1994
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 21:53:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Marvin Sirbu <ms6b+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: com-priv@psi.com, francis@avalle.insoft.com (John [Francis] Stracke)
In-Reply-To: <9404121540.AA04968@avalle.insoft.com>
Excerpts from internet.com-priv: 12-Apr-94 Clinton Adminsitration Corp..
by John [. Stracke@avalle.i
> >My understanding is that the government support is not paying for
> >networking services, which will be acquired in the commerical
> >marketplace, but rather for the development of new application-oriented
> >technologies which will make the use of the Internet practical for a
> >larger range of commercial purposes.
>
> Any bets on how secure a government-funded security standard is going
> to be? :-(
Actually, my understanding is that the Commercenet approach is based on
the use of Privacy Enhanced Mail and RSA public key encryption.
