17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
David Macfarlane writes:
My memory is a bit foggy on this one, but didn't the gov't ask Netscape (and others?) to stop producing programs with the hooks for strong encryption in them, in spite of the fact that they did _not_ provide that strong encryption?
The story was that NSA had asked the NCSA folks to remove the PEM/PGP hooks in their web server source. See, for example, http://consult.ncsa.uiuc.edu/docs/httpd/Upgrade.html -- Jeff