17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Just got back from doing some consulting in Europe. In the Zurich airport, there was a large illuminated sign (near the business class lounges) that proclaimed: Reliable cipher systems for absolute telecom protection TST 7790 Secure telephone, sat phone, ISDN TST 5573 F/U Fax ciphering TST 5573C Data ciphering with 10 EXP 80 Key TST 4045 HF SSB krypto modem TST 8010 Spread spectrum transceiver TST TeleSecurity Timmann Timman Gmbh Lutzing, Germany Full color photos of all of the above products were displayed. No technical details on the cryptosystems being used, but quite refreshing, considering the current state of things in the good old US of A...