AT&T Encryption Product
NCR - An AT&T Company ____________________________________INTRA CORPORATION From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com> Location: Pleasanton District To: cypherpunks@toad.com Location: The Real World,or at least Cyberspace Subject: AT&T Encryption Product Well, it was interesting to see Philippe Nave's posting about an AT&T encryption software product (using the government's digital signature and secure hash standards instead of RSA and MD-5, so it won't be PGP- or PEM-compatible). Prices seemed a bit high, though not bad for AT&T, who are cutting some new market turf as well as typically pricey, and the encrypted Zmodem software may be useful. Does anybody know if there are any other SHA / government-signature products out? (I'm assuming there won't be much freeware because of the patent issue; people who don't mind violating RSA's patent generally use PGP.) Bill
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Well, it was interesting to see Philippe Nave's posting about an AT&T encryption software product (using the government's digital signature and secure hash standards instead of RSA and MD-5, so it won't be PGP- or PEM-compatible).
I got a call from David Arneke of AT&T yesterday. He was able to answer a few questions for me: namely, that the reason no RSA-based products are available is that they aren't finished yet! AT&T Secure Systems put on a big push to have products ready to show at COMDEX, and the DES/SHA/DSS-based products were ready first. Arneke did say that they will be forthcoming. - -Paul - -- Paul Robichaux, KD4JZG | Caution: cutting edge is sharp. Avoid contact. Intergraph Federal Systems | Be a cryptography user - ask me how. ** Of course I don't speak for Intergraph. ** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLOJ4NSA78To+806NAQGT8gQAjCpcoS1fXuVWpl1blQbmWMab4dogq8XR Vdp3CXbhBiouXFQdlgW/CwqNzuZj0ghYQYFwuQUB2/NklAkPepP8kUi4fxqtkn/F BoOzHofmpHFILWG6xhLLUlW8pX/GtFPaRkJsB2gKL5r+NrzLg5xCPN8xAHVDvdpw /yNWT3ituHc= =2+dY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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