On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, John Young wrote: [On hardware crypto used in banking].
Are these systems related to Kawika Daguio's comments on PCCIP forwarded by Declan yesterday? Anyone have more detailed info on the boards and link encryptors?
The hardware crypto used by banking networks is universally underperforming and overpriced. As the leading vendor is losing market share due to the fact that customers are starting to wonder why they are paying $5-10k for a device that is outperformed by a Pentium 90, some enterprising vendor of such devices has aparently convinced the Fed to help him elimiate competition by means of regulations. Your basic government contract con job. -- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP v5 encrypted email preferred. "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"