[67266] in Cypherpunks
Re: boycott GAKkers (was Re: NYT on IBM GAK)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The Deviant)
Fri Oct 4 07:44:45 1996
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 11:30:56 +0000 (GMT)
From: The Deviant <deviant@pooh-corner.com>
To: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961003203339.1382B-100000@gak.voicenet.com>
On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Mark M. wrote:
> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 20:39:58 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com, Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: boycott GAKkers (was Re: NYT on IBM GAK)
>
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> On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Adam Back wrote:
>
> > (I've seen HP, Sun, RSADSI, TIS, Apple, Atalla, DEC, Groupe Bull, IBM,
> > NCR Corp., and UPS mentioned). Any confirmations? Denials?
>
> IBM and TIS are definitely pro-GAK. TIS is selling a firewall that uses
> GAKked DES. IBM has been working on developing the "key recovery" technology.
> The article posted here a while ago that told of IBM's plans to support GAK
> also said that they were planning to license the technology to Sun and
> Netscape. I don't know about the accuracy of that last statement.
>
> Mark
> - --
So really, what it boils down to is that the masses (thats us) have o
crack DES before GAK is imposed.
--Deviant
"The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of
assembly language with the power of assembly language."
