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[Jeff Weinstein]

John Young wrote:
> 
>    10-17-96, BuWi:
> 
>    "Apple, IBM, JavaSoft, Motorola, Netscape, Nortel, Novell,
>    RSA, and Silicon Graphics Announce PICA Crypto-Alliance"
> 
>       The PICA specification will also be designed to make the
>       task of developing differing domestic and exportable
>       security requirements much easier. [GAK alliance 2.]

  John, I think you are misreading the intent here.  By making
it easier to develop separate domestic and exportable
versions of a product, we foil the government's attempt to
force weak domestic encryption because it is too much work to
maintain two different versions.

	--Jeff

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Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
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