http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/wired/story.html?s=n/reuters /980310/wired/stories/sun_4.html Tuesday March 10 9:58 AM EST Sun puts high-strength encryption software aside SAN FRANCISCO (Wired) - Sun Microsystems, which had hoped to market high-strength encryption software developed by a Russian firm, has put the plans on hold due to ongoing scrutiny by the US Commerce Department, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The software, partially based on a Sun security protocol, was developed by a Moscow company called Elvis+, a firm started by former Soviet space scientists in which Sun now owns a 10 percent stake. The deal attracted widespread attention because it appeared to give Sun a way around the Clinton administration's regulation of strong-crypto exports. Sun contended the Elvis+ products fall outside the purview of US government policy. The administration has been reviewing the deal for nine months now. Sun executives, who had hoped to put the encryption software on the market last August, have shelved the plans for the moment, but they remain hopeful, the Journal reported. ------------------------------------------------------------ David Honig Orbit Technology honig@otc.net Intaanetto Jigyoubu "I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence." Mahatma Gandhi