
Alex Strasheim writes:
Why aren't foreign companies flooding America with strong crypto? Well, there are clearly pressures of the sort Tim described at work. But there are other factors as well:
o Crypto has only recently become useful/necessary to lots of business people -- the demand from crypto is born out of the networking boom, especially the Internet, which isn't picky about who can use it.
Security is an odd thing. I have clients who have obvious and very extreme security needs that do not spend any real time worrying about security and as a result end up being burned. However, until the day you are burned, you never think about security and never notice it is absent. To some extent, it is the job of consultants such as myself to assure that firms understand what they have at stake and how to protect themselves, especially by securing their communications networks with cryptography. Perry