Lucky Green wrote:
Below is a list of the members of the "Key Recovery Alliance" who are working hard to make the world safe for GAK. I intend to boycott them, though that may not be possible, since the "Allicance" seems to include just about anybody in the computer industy. It is sickening.
Baltimore Technologies nCipher Corp. Boeing NEC Cryptomathic Portland Software GemPlus RedCreek Communications Frontier Technologies Corp. RPK Fujitsu Ltd. Silicon Graphics, Inc. Hitachi Spyrus Open Horizon, Inc. Sterling Commerce Intel Tandem IRE Technical Communications Corp. Mitsubishi Electric America Toshiba America Online, Inc. Mytec Technologies, Inc. Apple Computer, Inc. NCR Corp. Atalla Network Systems Group of StorageTek Certicom Novell, Inc. Compaq Computer Corp. PSA CygnaCom Solutions, Inc. Price Waterhouse Cylink Corp. Racal Data Group Data Securities International Inc. Rainbow Technologies First Data Corp. RSA Digital Equipment Corp. SafeNet Trusted Services Corp. Digital Signature Trust Company Secure Computing Corp. Entrust Technologies SourceFile Gradient Technologies, Inc. Sterling Commerce Groupe Bull Sun Microsystems, Inc. Hewlett-Packard Trusted Information Systems, Inc. IBM Unisys ICL UPS McAfee Utimaco Mergent Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan VPNet Technologies Motorola
I wonder how many of these companies signed up "just to appear on the list". Apple, as far as I know, has no GAK project in place. In fact, as far as I know, the last GAK-related action that anyone at Apple has participated, was to participate in the original press release. This is not meant as a defense of Apple. I have discussed their support of this organization with senior management there, and tried to convince them of the errors of their ways. Rather, it is a comment on their current activities regarding GAK. Apple also happens to be the one company on that list that I have non-public knowledge of. -- Marshall Marshall Clow Aladdin Systems <mailto:mclow@mailhost2.csusm.edu> "In Washington DC, officials from the White House, federal agencies and Congress say regulations may be necessary to promote a free-market system." -- CommunicationsWeek International April 21, 1997