At 02:20 PM 10/18/95 -0400, Brad Dolan wrote:

PR 10/18 0809 ORACLE INTRODUCES SOFTWARE TOOL FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT

Tool Helps Federal, State, Municipal Agencies Stop the Criminal Element

Oracle SIUSS represents a major step forward in the collection, storage and analysis of case intelligence information for complex conspiracies, violent crimes such as rape and murder, drug trafficking, and other major cases.

On a related note, the October 1995 issue of Signal (the Official publication of AFCEA) had this blurb on Oracle's Secure Network Services product (pg 26): "The company's Secure Network Services product is designed to deal with Internet security issues. This system is designed for the structured query language (SQL)* networking family of products for significant technology advancement in the client-server arena. The company is establishing agreements with firewall vendors, such as DEC, Sun Microsystems, Trusted Information Systems and Secure Computing Computing Corportation in a new Internet Partners Venture. The Secure Network Services version 1.0 specifically deals with encryption technology supporting RSA Data Security, Incorporated's RC4 encryption algorithm and digital encryption standards. The RC4 digitial encryption algorithm uses a secret, randomly generated 40-bit key for every SQL* Net sesssion. All user network traffic, including all data values, SQL* statements and stored procedure calls and results, is safeguarded fully, according to Notargiacomo. These features support tamper-proof data transmission. The company's Secure Network Services Version 1.1 provides a highly optimized 56-bit key U.S. data encryption standard (DES) algorithm known as DES40, a version the combines DES with international availability of a 40-bit key... ... MGen. Richard O'Lear, USAF (Ret.), an Oracle associate director, notes that, with Secure Network Services, it virtually is impossible for an intruder to alter or replay data or commands without detection."