At 11:14 AM 10/2/96 GMT, jya@pipeline.com (John Young) wrote:

The New York Times, October 2, 1996, pp. D1, D8.

Compromise Is Offered on Computer Security Codes

By John Markoff

[snip]

Executives of the International Business Machines Corporation said late yesterday that they were still lining up the final list of companies in the alliance. Those involved will include Digital Equipment and smaller data-security companies including RSA Data Security, Cylink ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ and Trusted Information Systems. [snip]

"The Government announcement is disastrous," said Jim Bidzos, chief executive of RSA Data Security, one of the country's leading developers of data-scrambling software. "We warned I.B.M. that the National Security Agency would try to twist their technology." [snip]

Isn't there at least a slight contradiction here? Hello, Mr. Markoff? Is RSA really involved in this "alliance" (read "sell out") or did IBM just throw out their name? Inquiring minds want to know... Rich ______________________________________________________________________ Rich Burroughs richieb@teleport.com http://www.teleport.com/~richieb See my Blue Ribbon Page at http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/blueribbon U.S. State Censorship Page at - http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/state New EF zine "cause for alarm" - http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/cause