From: "Bob Denny" <rdenny@[38.248.4.2]>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 10:32:47 -0700 (PDT)
To: "Mark O. Aldrich" <maldrich@grci.com>
Subject: Re: Crypto: Systems & Application Developers Wanted
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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?