[68235] in Cypherpunks
Production of ALPHACIPHER for Windows 95 and DOS Cancelled!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (! Drive)
Fri Oct 18 00:25:41 1996
From: "! Drive" <drink@aa.net>
To: "cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 21:11:29 -0700
This may have already been posted, but I found it interesting...
from: http://www.aa.net/cyber-survival-hq/
Development of the ALPHACIPHER product line has been voluntarily cancelled
due to the possibility of
non-compliance of users of ALPHACIPHER with the new key escrow
law.
Every key created by a user that would encrypt messages for international
correspondence would have to be
registered with the US Government. Cyber-Survival-HQ cannot insure that the
users of ALPHACIPHER would
voluntarily comply with this new law, and so ALPHACIPHER is hereby
withdrawn from the marketplace.
ALPHACIPHER currently has no built-in key generation function, and the
proposed release of an
ALPHACIPHER key generator has been terminated. All purchasers of ALPHACIPHER
are entitled to a complete
refund, and this has already been done.
The New ADFGVX cipher is still offered for sale, as it is a breakable
cipher, at least in theory.
