1994-01-06 - RSA & General Magic

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From: “Harry S. Hawk” <habs@panix.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Good Guys)
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UTC Datetime: 1994-01-06 21:14:33 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 13:14:33 PST

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From: "Harry S. Hawk" <habs@panix.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 94 13:14:33 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Good Guys)
Subject: RSA & General Magic
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General Magic in their media kit which was handed out at MacWorld
today states;

"General Magic picks RSA to provide security for Telescript and
Magic Cap.

Jan 6th 93 (sic) - GM announced today it has licensed tech. from RSA
to provide security services for its Telescript communications
engine....

GM used RSA's BSAFE toolkit, with encryption and digital sig. features
based on RSA Public Key Cryptosystem and RSA's RC4 symmertic stream
cipher.

-- 
Harry S. Hawk  				      habs@extropy.org
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