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?