At 1:59 AM 9/17/96, David Lesher wrote:
Clarinet sez:
OTTAWA, Sept. 16 (UPI) -- The federal government has chosen Northern Telecom's data security software, Entrust { } Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)... for gov't use.....
worth $7.3 million......
Add to this these items: -- the IBM GAK product -- the "Clipper IV" (or is it only Clipper III?) GAK announcement expected "soon" It seems that several of these announcements are happening at the same time, which I doubt is coincidental. As the Republican challenger (whose name escapes me at the moment :-}) is not making an issue out of this, and is not making any issues out of anything related to liberty issues as near as I can tell, Clinton and the national security establishment seem to have free rein (and reign) to deploy GAK> As Lucky pointed out, GAK now appears inevitable. There's probably still time to monkeywrench these schemes, though. A few Blaze- or Wagner/Goldberg-type hacks could undermine confidence in the Key Authority (not to be confused with the Port Authority, which I presume handles i/o port assignments). --Tim May We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."