AT&T Encryption Product

Bill Stewart stewab at us0750tb.oakland.NCR.COM
Wed Nov 10 19:13:27 PST 1993


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    From:  Bill Stewart <bill.stewart at pleasantonca.ncr.com>
Location:  Pleasanton District

      To:  cypherpunks at 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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