Which products is it competing with? To date I don't know of any that
perform the same types of functions. The smart card technolgies don't
seem to have either the speed or storage capability from the reading I've
done. There are severl vendors who are leveraging off the card to
introduce commercial versions (National Semi for 1). There are lots of
smart cards being procured and used both in the DoD and out. I just
don't think that any meet what is needed for MISSI, IMHO.
As to the rest, I wouldn't have any idea. I haven;t heard anywhere that
they are going to allow export outside of official use
On Tue, 11 Jul 1995, Marcus J Ranum wrote:
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>
> One thing that's surprised me about Fortezza is that it's
> a government-developed product that they're trying to push in
> direct competition with the private sector. There's been amazingly
> little outcry from private sector companies that produce the
> existing products on the market, and I don't understand it. The
> feds are going to ice the cake by probably blessing it for export
> even if it has encryption (thanks to the Clipper trapdoor). Talk
> about competing on an uneven basis!! How'd you like to be a
> commercial company that made encryption products, when your
> competition could not only strangle you with laws and regulations,
> but was funding their R&D, and marketing, all on the taxpayer's
> nickel?
>
> mjr.
>
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