Crypto: Systems & Application Developers Wanted

SPYRUS, the leading provider of cryptographic tokens (PC cards & 
     Smart Cards), with associated systems and applications software, is 
     looking for engineers with the following qualifications to work 
with
     our Secure Applications Group in San Jose, CA:
     
     *  5 or more years experience in systems and applications software 
     design and implementation in C and C++.  Assembler experience 
     desired.
     
     * Minimum 3 years experience with Windows development including 
device 
     drivers and VxD's, using Microsoft and Borland compilers, NuMega 
     tools, etc.   Windows MFC, NT kernel, and Unix (any versions) 
     experience desirable.  Mac experience a plus.
     
     * Cryptographic and other security software expertise highly 
     desirable.
     
     
     Gregg Weissman
     SPYRUS
     San Jose, CA
     Voice: 408-432-8180 x225
     Fax: 408-432-8415
     
     email ASCII resume to:
     gweissman@spyrus.com
     - or - 
     msutherland@spyrus.com

     see the SPYRUS page at http://www.spyrus.com

On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, SPYRUS wrote:

> SPYRUS, the leading provider of cryptographic tokens (PC cards & 
>      Smart Cards), with associated systems and applications software, is 
>      looking for engineers with the following qualifications to work 
> with
>      our Secure Applications Group in San Jose, CA:
>      

Uh, excuse me, but doesn't SPYRUS in fact market a Fortezza card?  The
very same card being used by the Evil Empire to spread diseased and impure
so-called "cryptography" (with GAK permanently embedded into it) to the
uninformed minions?  And, in participating in this rape of society, are
you nor profiting from the very thing that many of us find so repulsive?
It seems that you've fully cooperated with the GAK ideology (see
http://www.spyrus.com/data/7.shtml) even though it is understood to be
contraindicated in a free and open society. 

Before you go spamming mailing lists again trolling for people with no
scruples who'll whore themselves out to help you fuck over the American
people, you might get enough of a clue to know where you're posting.

For whomever is undertaking the SPYRUS infiltration task, you know what to
do....

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Mark and friends -

I just returned from the Internet Expo in Boston, at which the NSA had a booth 
where they were pushing the FORTEZZA card. Some interesting things (at least 
to me):

* Netscape has a working prototype of their browser and server that uses
  FORTEZZA for encryption

* There are three (or 4??) companies building FORTEZZA cards, including 
  National Semi (the only one I recognized).

* The NSA guy I talked to said that they planned to market a "token card" 
  that uses RSA/DES, instead of Skipjack and friends, "sometime next year".

  -- Bob

"Mark O. Aldrich" <maldrich@grci.com> wrote:
> Uh, excuse me, but doesn't SPYRUS in fact market a Fortezza card?  The
> very same card being used by the Evil Empire to spread diseased and impure
> so-called "cryptography" (with GAK permanently embedded into it) to the
> uninformed minions?