John Markoff writes:
In a letter sent to the Vice President last Thursday, eight executives, including James Treybig, chairman of Tandem Computers Inc.; Gil F. Amelio, chairman of the National Semiconductor Corporation; Edward McCracken, chairman of Silicon Graphics Inc.; Eugene Shanks Jr. president of the Bankers Trust New York Corporation, which conducts international electronic commerce, and Stephen T. Walker, chairman of Trusted Information Systems, urged that the Government immediately establish a new standard to control the export of technology that is used to encode communications, so that outsiders cannot tap in.
This doesn't say very much. What sort of "new standard" for crypto export control did they urge ? Also, if you'll pardon my naivete, how does TIS stand to benefit from such restrictions ? -Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>