Microsoft's CryptoAPI - thoughts?

geeman at best.com geeman at best.com
Thu Jan 25 10:52:20 PST 1996



>What does everyone think about this? Perhaps I already missed the boat, but
>I just found out about it. How would international apps work? Would a data
>file encrypted with an app compiled with a US-only CSP (cryptographic
>service provider) be able to be loaded by a European equivalent app?
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>[Info can be found at: http://www.microsoft.com/intdev/inttech/cryptapi.htm]
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To which I would like to generalize: what do you (all those with an opinion on the matter) think/feel/intuit 
about general crypto API's overall?  How would you compare some of the simultaneous threads of 
development going on now in different orgs?  Any strong positions out there? 









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