On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Mark M. wrote:
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 20:39:58 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com> To: cypherpunks@toad.com, Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk> Subject: Re: boycott GAKkers (was Re: NYT on IBM GAK)
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On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Adam Back wrote:
(I've seen HP, Sun, RSADSI, TIS, Apple, Atalla, DEC, Groupe Bull, IBM, NCR Corp., and UPS mentioned). Any confirmations? Denials?
IBM and TIS are definitely pro-GAK. TIS is selling a firewall that uses GAKked DES. IBM has been working on developing the "key recovery" technology. The article posted here a while ago that told of IBM's plans to support GAK also said that they were planning to license the technology to Sun and Netscape. I don't know about the accuracy of that last statement.
Mark - --
So really, what it boils down to is that the masses (thats us) have o crack DES before GAK is imposed. --Deviant "The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language."