[2633] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
More good stuff from the keyboard of John Markoff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter S. Ford)
Tue Mar 24 18:10:26 1992
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 92 16:09:01 MST
From: peter@goshawk.LANL.GOV (Peter S. Ford)
To: com-priv@psi.com
Since we are talking about commercializing the Internet, and the
presumed need for some kind of encryption to accomplish that, many of
you might be interested in reading an article in today's NYT.
peter
>>>>>>>> start of story
New York Times. Tuesday 24 March 1992, Business Section, page 1.
Software Coding for Export/ Security Agency and Industry in Talks
John Markoff
An organization representing the nation's largest software publishers
of software for desktop computers is close to completing a confidential
agreement with the NSA to permit the sale abroad of programs that
contain special data security functions.
... (more good stuff here)
"The N.S.A. claims that most of the world does not know of its involvement
in reviewing software with encryption, and they don't want to broadcast
the fact in the Federal Register", the memorandum said.
>>>>>>> end of story
