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  OFFICE MEMO          FWD>Crypto IP                          Date:6/2/94

Hello Jim,

I saw your note and as a chair of the IP Security working group I thought I
would try to give you a quick update.  So far, there are quite a few
emerging implementations of IP layer cryptographic security, but no
interoperable implementations.  I believe that this will change in the next
few months.  

You may want to subscribe to:

ipsec-request@ans.net

archives in ftp.ans.net

This is our IETF mail list for IP security, it is currently quite slow, but
with a meeting of the IETF in July, this should get more active.  There will
be a public domain version real soon for BSD.  I do not think that the U.S.
versions are necessarily weakened.  For example, the UUNET implementation
runs a very fast version of triple DES.

What are the foreign versions that you feel are higher quality?


Hope this helps,


Paul A. Lambert

Motorola, Inc. 
M/S AZ49-R1209          Internet: Paul_Lambert@email.mot.com
8220 E. Roosevelt Rd.    Phone:    +1-602-441-3646
Scottsdale, Az.         Fax:      +1-602-441-8864
     85257  USA

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Does anybody have an update on crypto IP efforts?  I've
heard there are several commercial products, including
weakened U.S. DES versions from Semaphore Technologies,
Motorola, Hughes, and UUNET technologies.  Also, some
higher quality foreign versions.  How many of these products
interoperate across vendors?  Are there any public domain
versions available or in the works?  Any emerging standards,
so that if I wrote my own system it could interoperate with
other crypto IP based clients and servers?

thanks,
Jim Hart
hart@chaos.bsu.edu