Jerrold Leichter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >They also sold a full solution for encrypted Ethernet - KDC, encrypting >Ethernet adapters, associated software. None of this stuff went anywhere. >People just weren't interested.
That wasn't quite the case for the Ethernet encryption. What happened there was that they had a complete product ready to ship and quite a bit of interest when it was killed by marketing. The problem was that Ethernet at the time wasn't the forgone conclusion it is now, it was just one of a number of potential candidates for the foregone-conclusion role. By shipping an encrypting Ethernet adapter, marketing felt that DEC were saying that standard Ethernet wasn't safe. In contrast token ring didn't have an encryption adapter, so obviously token ring must be secure by default, whereas Ethernet clearly wasn't. As a result, the encryption adapter was never shipped. "Strategy is not letting the enemy know you're out of bullets by continuing to fire". Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
