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Re: Rest of World encryption hardware products?

To: Alex Alten <Andrade@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Rest of World encryption hardware products?
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 11:48:05 -0400
cc: Stephen Waters <Stephen.Waters@digital.com>, ipsec@tis.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jun 1998 00:25:19 PDT." <3.0.3.32.19980609002519.009c0d80@netcom.com>
Sender: owner-ipsec@ex.tis.com

> >	Since it is not possible to ship worth-while encryption products
> >from the US (40-bit restriction), 
> 
> Actually that is not true anymore.  TriStrata Security just announced
> a fully exportable, unlimited key strength encryption product.  Here's
> their URL.
> 
> http://www.tristrata.com

I read the whitepaper on the site.  It contains a number of phrases
which should set off any crypto expert's snake-oil detectors, the most
crucial being "virtual one time pad".

It also has built-in key recovery, and appears to require interaction
with a centralized network service for all encryption and decryption.
As described, it also has good potential to have severe scaling
problems.

My advice is "run away screaming".

						- Bill

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