Note that it says that the encrypted file can then be sent
overseas. Nothing about the software. Ciphertext has never been export
restricted.
> [It all sounds very bizarre and snake-oily to me.... --Perry]
>
> At the DATA COMMUNICATIONS web site at
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> http://www.data.com/story/DCM19990225S0004
>
> there is a story titled , "Vendor Offers Way Around Encryption
> Restriction", dated 2/25/99.
>
> It describes a product by Azalea Software called the "Carrick Online
> Server" which claims to circumvent US export restrictions. The story
> claims that their product allows users to use 448 bit Blowfish on US soil
> and then ship the encrypted file outside the country.
>
> The story further claims that the actual encryption is not done locally,
> but at the Carrick Online Server, with the original plain text sent to the
> server using SSL.
>
> All in all, I had trouble trying to figure out what the product does and if
> in fact it has really succeeded circumventing the export laws (which I doubt).
>
> Anyone know anything about this product?
>
> Thanks
> Rick Murad
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sameer
