[67055] in Cypherpunks
Re: NYT on IBM GAK
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Burroughs)
Wed Oct 2 10:24:39 1996
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 07:03:46 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Rich Burroughs <richieb@teleport.com>
At 11:14 AM 10/2/96 GMT, jya@pipeline.com (John Young) wrote:
> The New York Times, October 2, 1996, pp. D1, D8.
>
>
> Compromise Is Offered on Computer Security Codes
>
> By John Markoff
[snip]
> Executives of the International Business Machines
> Corporation said late yesterday that they were still lining
> up the final list of companies in the alliance. Those
> involved will include Digital Equipment and smaller
> data-security companies including RSA Data Security, Cylink
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> and Trusted Information Systems.
[snip]
> "The Government announcement is disastrous," said Jim
> Bidzos, chief executive of RSA Data Security, one of the
> country's leading developers of data-scrambling software.
> "We warned I.B.M. that the National Security Agency would
> try to twist their technology."
[snip]
Isn't there at least a slight contradiction here? Hello, Mr. Markoff? Is
RSA really involved in this "alliance" (read "sell out") or did IBM just
throw out their name?
Inquiring minds want to know...
Rich
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