17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Jyri Kaljundi wrote: | The real question is, why can't Checkpoint who manufactures the Firewall-1 | sell DES version in Europe, but only in US and Canada. Elsewhere they use | a proprietary algorithm called FWZ (48-bit). I have not any analysis done | on FWZ so I don't think anyone is using it. They're listed on NASDAQ (CKP). This makes them an American company for purposes of export controls. (This from an employee of Checkpoint who I asked that exact question.) Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume