Exporing Military encryption to China

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Fri Aug 31 06:44:02 PDT 2001




On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:41:56AM -0000, Dr. Evil wrote:
> Does anyone know why this KIV-7 thing is so super-seekrit, or why the
> Chinese would want it so badly that they paid to smuggle them?  It is
> made by Mykotronx, the same guys who made the Clipper chips.  From
> what I could find about it, it just sounds like a super-secure VPN box
> that can basically encrypt T1s and satellite links.  It is

Are you sure? Looks like it's a crypto-unit that handles WAN functions
as well and can be plugged into a router:
http://www.rainbow.com/mykoweb/lan_rout.pdf

-Declan





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