[67006] in Cypherpunks
Re: Clipper III on the table
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Tue Oct 1 21:58:31 1996
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 18:31:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <v03007801ae7760b5f2f3@[206.119.69.46]>
On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Robert Hettinga wrote:
[as to why HP and others support GAK in exchange for DES export]
> I agree with Lucky's earlier hypothesis that HP's doing this to curry
favor
> for government contracts in lieu of an actual marketing strategy, and I
> leave TIS's motives up to the list as an exercise. ;-).
This not a hypothesis. A policy person from HP told me that
1. HP as well as TIS and other companies sell single DES products that
they would like to be able to export.
2. He was directed by HP's marketing department to find a way to make
that happen.
3. He therefore supports a GAK for export "compromise".
--Lucky
