[68297] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crypto: Systems & Application Developers Wanted
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Denny)
Sat Oct 19 14:12:25 1996
From: "Bob Denny" <rdenny@[38.248.4.2]>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 09:13:07 -0700
In-Reply-To: "Mark O. Aldrich" <maldrich@grci.com>
"Re: Crypto: Systems & Application Developers Wanted" (Oct 15, 19:11)
To: "Mark O. Aldrich" <maldrich@grci.com>
Cc: coderpunks@toad.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
Mark and friends -
I just returned from the Internet Expo in Boston, at which the NSA had a booth
where they were pushing the FORTEZZA card. Some interesting things (at least
to me):
* Netscape has a working prototype of their browser and server that uses
FORTEZZA for encryption
* There are three (or 4??) companies building FORTEZZA cards, including
National Semi (the only one I recognized).
* The NSA guy I talked to said that they planned to market a "token card"
that uses RSA/DES, instead of Skipjack and friends, "sometime next year".
-- Bob
"Mark O. Aldrich" <maldrich@grci.com> wrote:
> Uh, excuse me, but doesn't SPYRUS in fact market a Fortezza card? The
> very same card being used by the Evil Empire to spread diseased and impure
> so-called "cryptography" (with GAK permanently embedded into it) to the
> uninformed minions?
