Bob Bruen, MIT Lab for Nuclear Science wrote:
The following came from a government source. I thought it might be of interest. Bob --------------------------------------------------------------------------
At yesterdays FNC (Federal Networking Council) meeting it was mentioned in passing that NSA has given Netscape a grant of $5 Million (yes $5M) to beef up the security features of Netscape. More info will be forthcoming on this.
This is not strictly true. The NSA has given us a contract to add support for Fortezza to some of our products, including servers and navigators. The amount was less than $5M, but I'm not sure that I should say how much it was. One of the things we hope to get out of this work is an architecture for our products that allows us to easily support other crypto hardware, including devices that don't use Secret algorithms, and don't require key-escrow. --Jeff -- Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.