[67671] in Cypherpunks
IRE founder Doug Kozlay [NEWS]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dale Thorn)
Wed Oct 9 04:21:53 1996
Date: Wed, 09 Oct 1996 00:58:21 -0700
From: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
The L.A. Times has run at least 3 major (full- or nearly-full-page)
articles on encryption subjects in the last 4 or 5 working days.
Tuesday's (8 Oct) article concerns Doug Kozlay, a "former" researcher
for NSA. A few excerpts:
"Not a dollar (of 2 trillion in govt. payments) goes through unless the
electronic key Kozlay invented turns in an electronic lock..."
"He (Kozlay) envisions future consumers using electronic cash cards with
all the anonymity and easy spending of paper money."
"All the new devices he imagines would be protected by IRE's encryption
technology."
The article goes on to describe how could standardize encryption all
across the Internet. IRE has a current contract to encrypt MCI's
Internet access service, for $12 million.
