NODE 6bfce0f5AT&T Encryption Product
Bill Stewart <stewab@us0750tb.oakland.NCR.COM>Wed, 10 Nov 93 19:13:27 PST
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From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com>
Location: Pleasanton District
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Location: The Real World,or at least Cyberspace
Subject: AT&T Encryption Product
Well, it was interesting to see Philippe Nave's posting about an AT&T
encryption software product (using the government's digital signature
and secure hash standards instead of RSA and MD-5, so it won't be PGP-
or PEM-compatible). Prices seemed a bit high, though not bad for AT&T,
who are cutting some new market turf as well as typically pricey,
and the encrypted Zmodem software may be useful. Does anybody know
if there are any other SHA / government-signature products out?
(I'm assuming there won't be much freeware because of the patent
issue; people who don't mind violating RSA's patent generally use PGP.)
Bill
NODE 26f58c2aRe: AT&T Encryption Product
paul@poboy.b17c.ingr.com (Paul Robichaux)Thu, 11 Nov 93 09:39:32 PST
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> Well, it was interesting to see Philippe Nave's posting about an AT&T
> encryption software product (using the government's digital signature
> and secure hash standards instead of RSA and MD-5, so it won't be PGP-
> or PEM-compatible).
I got a call from David Arneke of AT&T yesterday. He was able to
answer a few questions for me: namely, that the reason no RSA-based
products are available is that they aren't finished yet!
AT&T Secure Systems put on a big push to have products ready to show
at COMDEX, and the DES/SHA/DSS-based products were ready first. Arneke
did say that they will be forthcoming.
- -Paul
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