Firewalls Digest Sunday, 3 April 1994 Volume 03 : Number 102
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Re: INTERNET STILL VULNERABLE, encryption standard only reliable solution ( Vinton Cerf Testimony at a House Subcommittee )
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From: "J.P. Mante" <omega @
runner .
knoware .
nl>
Date: Sun, 3 Apr 1994 02:04:28 +0100 (WET DST)
Subject: Re: INTERNET STILL VULNERABLE, encryption standard only reliable solution ( Vinton Cerf Testimony at a House Subcommittee )
On Fri, 1 Apr 1994, Werner Uhrig wrote:
> >> INTERNET STILL VULNERABLE Testimony at a House Subcommittee on
> >> Science indicates that threats to Internet security should be viewed
> >> as on-going rather than isolated events. Internet Society President
> >> Vinton Cerf says that development and use of an international
> >> encryption standard is the only reliable solution to the problem.
> >> (Chronicle of Higher Education 3/30/94 A22)
>
> ---
> Werner Uhrig
> <werner @
cs .
utexas .
edu>
>
>
Well this make a lot of sense, unfortunately there are countries such as
the Netherlands were encryption will most likely become illagal fro other
than Government agencies. At one side we are to be protected against
hacking on the other side it seems to be the idea to take away the tools
which would enable us to do so.
Omega
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