Business Week on Crypto

[John Young]

There is a brief article on commercial crypto in Business Week 
of July 4, p. 13, by Stephen H. Wildstrom <techandu at mgh.com>.

It sets out need for crypto; describes use of private and 
public keys; key management services by Northern Telecom Ltd. 
and National Semiconductor Corp.; future crypto by Lotus and 
Microsoft; war of RSA and NIST and resulting standoff.