From: Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 00:49:24 +0800
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: DARPA Hires NetAss/TIS TO Develop Secure DNS
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On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Bill Stewart wrote:

> 
> This is somewhat tacky.  SecureDNS exists, and TIS got export approval
> a while back to publish a "bones" version, minus encryption routines.
> John Gilmore and his lawyer decided that, since it only does authentication,
> not message encryption, it should be ok to publish _with_ the crypto
> algorithms, and it's been quietly sitting on his web pages.
> Recently the Feds sent him a letter saying "Oh, no, we didn't mean
> it was OK to publish/export this encryption-based authentication system
> just because the law says you can, so stop it"....
> Now they're paying for another version.  Are they going to try something
> DSS-based instead of RSA, just so you don't need encryption-capable
> crypto with it, or is this going to be another scam?
> Or is it just different parts of the Feds not talking to each other?

Maybe they suddenly felt the need to be able to backdoor DNS hijacking.
(Maybe the reason TIS is involved...)

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