On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Jeff Weinstein wrote:
John Young wrote:
10-17-96, BuWi:
"Apple, IBM, JavaSoft, Motorola, Netscape, Nortel, Novell, RSA, and Silicon Graphics Announce PICA Crypto-Alliance"
The PICA specification will also be designed to make the task of developing differing domestic and exportable security requirements much easier. [GAK alliance 2.]
John, I think you are misreading the intent here. By making it easier to develop separate domestic and exportable versions of a product, we foil the government's attempt to force weak domestic encryption because it is too much work to maintain two different versions.
--Jeff
-- Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Netscape Communication Corporation jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw Any opinions expressed above are mine.
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