f-secure..

On 25 Jun 96 at 17:45, brian dodds wrote:
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> at any rate - has anyone tried out that new f-secure by the folks who 
> brought us f-prot? "military strength internet encryption".. seems to be 
> an encrypted telnet, but i can't replace our server to test it..

No. I'll have to look for it.

In the F-Prot does they explicitly endorse using PGP (esp. for 
sending infected files to them for analysis, as well as for checking 
signatures of binaries in the F-Prot package).

They also do the same academic hedging about effectiveness of their 
anti-virus package that a good crypto package would use, so I suspect 
they're likely to produce a good crypto package.

BTW, they're located in Iceland, at the complex.is domain.  AFAIK, no 
export restrictions there.

Rob.



 
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Wed, 26 Jun 1996, Deranged Mutant wrote:

> On 25 Jun 96 at 17:45, brian dodds wrote:
> [..]
> > at any rate - has anyone tried out that new f-secure by the folks who 
> > brought us f-prot? "military strength internet encryption".. seems to be 
> > an encrypted telnet, but i can't replace our server to test it..
> 
> BTW, they're located in Iceland, at the complex.is domain.  AFAIK, no 
> export restrictions there.

F-secure is a new commercial version of the SSH package, written by Tatu
Ylonen from Finland. It uses the SSH protocol v2.0 and it is developed and
sold by Data Fellows from Finland, http://www.datafellows.com/
Cryptographic algorithms are RSA, IDEA and 3-key 3DES. It can be sold both
inside and outside the US. I would say the SSH package is very secure and
very well designed.

Jüri Kaljundi
AS Stallion
jk@stallion.ee