From: Alan Olsen <alan@ctrl-alt-del.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 09:57:15 -0800 (PST)
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: TIS + HP
Message-ID: <3.0b36.32.19961118095521.00dec794@mail.teleport.com>
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At 11:18 AM 11/18/96 -0500, John Young wrote:
>A blurb in the Wash Post today says that the HP roll-out
>this morning will include TIS's "trusted third party" product.
>"One essential ingredient in the equation: technology
>developed by TIS. TIS is so far the only company that has 
>received permission to export encryption technology 
>overseas that exceeds the government's existing 
>threshold."
>
>Guess we'll know shortly who else in the System is to be 
>Trusted with Information -- other than Thirds, Fourths and
>other Dots and Steves.

With TIS bending over for the big GAK Monster in so many ways, it brings up
a question...  (A probibly off-topic one...)

Does anyone know of intentional GAK-like holes put in their Firewall
Toolkit?  They distribute it for free and distribute source, but with their
record i have little trust in the matter...  (Better yet, does anyone have
suggestions for Firewall code that will run under Linux or FreeBSD?)



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