At 5:47 PM +0000 10/6/96, The Deviant wrote:
On Sat, 5 Oct 1996, Bill Stewart wrote:
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.---Oct. 2nd, 1996--RSA Data Security, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Security Dynamics Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: SDTI), issued the following comments on the administration's recent announcement of a Key Recovery Initiative: [rave reviews deleted....]
I wonder how much being bought by SDT has influenced their positions?
presumably a very large amount, I seriously doubt if R, S, and A like supporting GAK.
Of the three, only Rivest has had any significant connection to RSADSI in the last ten years or so. I heard from Diffie that Shamir's interest is zero (such as that he sold his interest long ago). I don't know about Adleman's interest, but I expect it is also minimal. Rivest has a continuing role, of course, and has a sizable stock position. As evidenced in the 10K-type documents John Gilmore pointed us to a few months ago (the first public glimpse into the fincances of RSADSI), the major stockholders are Addison Fisher (*), Jim Bidzos, and one or two others. (* Fisher--or it may be spelled "Fischer"--was once in the CIA, interestingly, and has long had spook connections on contracts his company works on. I had not realized he was a major RSADSI stockholder until the 10K documents were made public. You can draw your own conclusions, or not, about NSA involvment in RSADSI. I don't know anything more than what I've said here.) --Tim "The government announcement is disastrous," said Jim Bidzos,.."We warned IBM that the National Security Agency would try to twist their technology." [NYT, 1996-10-02] We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."