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1996-10-04 - Re: boycott GAKkers (was Re: NYT on IBM GAK)

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From: The Deviant <deviant@pooh-corner.com>
To: “Mark M.” <markm@voicenet.com>
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Message ID: <Pine.LNX.3.94.961004113015.158A-100000@random.sp.org>
Reply To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.961003203339.1382B-100000@gak.voicenet.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-10-04 14:18:28 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 22:18:28 +0800

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From: The Deviant <deviant@pooh-corner.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 22:18:28 +0800
To: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
Subject: Re: boycott GAKkers (was Re: NYT on IBM GAK)
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On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Mark M. wrote:

> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 20:39:58 -0400 (EDT)
> From: "Mark M." <markm@voicenet.com>
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com, Adam Back <aba@dcs.ex.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: boycott GAKkers (was Re: NYT on IBM GAK)
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> 
> On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Adam Back wrote:
> 
> > (I've seen HP, Sun, RSADSI, TIS, Apple, Atalla, DEC, Groupe Bull, IBM,
> > NCR Corp., and UPS mentioned).  Any confirmations?  Denials?
> 
> IBM and TIS are definitely pro-GAK.  TIS is selling a firewall that uses
> GAKked DES.  IBM has been working on developing the "key recovery" technology.
> The article posted here a while ago that told of IBM's plans to support GAK
> also said that they were planning to license the technology to Sun and
> Netscape.  I don't know about the accuracy of that last statement.
> 
> Mark
> - -- 

So really, what it boils down to is that the masses (thats us) have o
crack DES before GAK is imposed.

 --Deviant
"The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of
assembly language with the power of assembly language."

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