Markoff in NYT on NTT/RSA chip
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Tue Jun 4 00:42:37 PDT 1996
Heh. You read it first in the CyberWire Dispatch Brock and I put out
earlier tonight. :)
-Declan
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Japanese Data-Scrambling Chip Renews Debate
By JOHN MARKOFF
W ASHINGTON -- Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. has quietly
begun selling a powerful data-scrambling chip set that is likely to
undermine the Clinton administration's efforts to restrict the
export of the fundamental technology for protecting secrets and
commerce in the information age.
The existence of the two-chip set, which will have broad potential
application for local computer networks, the Internet and telephone
switching networks, was disclosed in Washington in a speech Monday
at a public policy workshop by the chief executive of RSA Data
Security, a Silicon Valley-based company that has frequently dueled
with the administration over its export-control policies.
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