Entrust Technologies (www.entrust.com) has made Solo available for download, free for 30-day evaluation & edu/non-profit. For Win95/NT. A mere $49 Cdn (~35 US) for commerical usage...
For e-mail / file encryption, digital signature
Solo uses 128-bit encryption, which is CAST-128, the royality-free algorithm invented at Entrust/NorTel. It also uses 1024-bit RSA
This is all nice and good, but the question is who is Chris Lewis, what is his connection to northern telecom, what the hell do you mean by forgery, are you implying the technology that entrust has in it's secure kernal is stolen? Keeping in mind that using public domain algorithms is not theft, and also keeping in mind that they have a patent license from public key partners, which allows them to use the "rsa" patents, and keeping in mind that a fully featured certificate system is much more than just a cryptography product. Is the law being broken here? Is there a breach of ethics at Entrust? To restate.....what's wrong with what entrust is doing? Everyone has had such a good time talking about spamming and cancels, but I'm really interested in how Nortel is somehow committing a forgery. Also looking around the dejanews stuff about lewis, he seems to be a spam cancel freak yes, but no pedophile. Dimitri, you seem to be a pretty smart guy...enlighten me on this whole thing. Do you mean that Nortel has a hand in the forging of spam cancels? Or do you mean that they have a hand in forging software? Chris DiBona -----Original Message----- From: Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM [SMTP:dlv@bwalk.dm.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 1997 6:22 AM To: cypherpunks@toad.com; freedom-knights@jetcafe.org Subject: Re: Entrust Technologies's Solo - free download public-key
cryptography and has DES, Triple DES available.
Also follows FIPS 140-1 validated security kernel. It is compatible with other Solo clients (of course), Entrust/Lite and Entrust.
I ask everyone on these two forums to inform Northern Telecom Forgers / Bell North Forgery Research / Entrust that we will boycott their "security" products as long they continue to employ the child-molesting pedophile Chris R. Lewis - the biggest forger on Usenet. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps