Crippled Notes export encryption

Mike Tighe tighe at spectrum.titan.com
Thu Jan 25 07:49:46 PST 1996


Jeff Weinstein writes:

>> Didn't Netscape already promise to remove the hooks? It seems to me all of
>> the major software players are already in bed with the government.
>
>  What do you mean by "promise to remove the hooks"?

I mean they planned to have some type of crypto, but then after a visit
from the USG, they removed that plan, and even withdrew the interface so
that someone else couldn't "drop in" the crypto. The press release
describing it was within the past 12 months or so. I will find it
eventually.






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