Flood Warning

BSDI To Share "SYN-Flooding" Protection Software 
       
      This code is freely available via BSDI's Web and FTP  
      sites at www.bsdi.com and ftp.bsdi.com. 
 
 
   TIS will license its encryption key recovery technology 
   to Atalla 
 
      The agreement comes on the heels of two other recent 
      developments: a new Administration policy regarding 
      export controls on strong encryption, and TIS and 
      Atalla's participation in a new computer industry 
      alliance to promote adoption of a worldwide standard 
      for encryption key recovery. 
 
      RecoverKey supports the Administration's new policy by 
      allowing emergency recovery of an encrypted message or 
      file. This technology, patented by TIS and first 
      approved by the U.S. government for export in January 
      1996, is fundamental to approaches now being 
      considered as the basis for a new global standard. 
 
      For more on RecoverKey, see:  
      http://www.tis.com/docs/products/cke/index.html 
 
 
   High-Tech Leaders Join Forces to Enable International 
   Strong Encryption 
 
      See: http://www.ibm.com/news/alliance2.htm 
 
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>   High-Tech Leaders Join Forces to Enable International
>   Strong Encryption
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>      See: http://www.ibm.com/news/alliance2.htm

The "International Strong Encryption" phrase is something that we
need to become active in stopping.  Anything which responds to such
announcements should put a different spin on this phrase.  If the
Clipper farce is accepted as "strong" encryption then the battle is
lost; maybe something like "it is _international_ strong encryption
because it is the strongest encryption people like Saddam Hussein [insert
bogeyman du jour] want Americans to have access to"

jim