At 08:44 PM 7/2/96 -0700, Martin Minow wrote:
It's not quite that bad. Here are a few (more or less strong) crypto products you might not know you have:
1. Every Macintosh made since at least 1988 has a secure authentication client module in the AppleShare Chooser dialog. When you use it to connect to a remote server, it notes that the user information is "two-way scrambled." (The server sends a random number challenge that the client uses to encrypt the username and password. The encrypted information is sent to the server.) All Macintosh systems running System 7 or later have the corresponding server software. What is interesting about this is that the encryption is completely invisible to the user.
How did this affect the Macintosh's exportability?
Note that the VCR companies have solved the vcr problem by receiving a timecode from a local television station -- making the problem invisible to the end user. We should be able to do the same with strong crypto.
I haven't bought a new VCR in a few years. Is this real? What prevented them from doing this 10 years ago? Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com