Bill Frantz writes:
While the Department of Justice guy (whose name slips my mind) was saying 4 horsemen over and over (really an oversimplification of his position), Data Fellows Ltd., Paivantaite 8, FIN-02210 ESPOO, Finland (http://www.datafellows.com) was in the vendor area offering strong crypto products with the line in one of their handouts, "This is orders of magnitude more security than DES-based or US products that are under the US ITAR export restrictions." In talking with them I didn't smell any snake oil.
As an aside, the stuff Datafellows is selling is, I believe, a commercial version of SSH, which is very good stuff. Its a full replacement for the whole berkeley "r" utilities using strong crypto (public key and conventional) for authentication and privacy. Does rlogin, rsh, redirects X sessions, slices and dices, etc. Really spiffy. (SSH suffers from a few minor flaws, but they will likely be corrected in the future; the only thing that worries me about it is that it is very large and thus hard to fully analyse, but it looks good enough that I've been using it day to day for many many months for all my medium security work.) Perry