At 12:12 PM 6/13/00 -0400, David Honig wrote:
>When you read about losing laptops in Los Alamos (and London), you have
>to wonder: why don't those folks encrypt their drives? They
>are somehow thinking physical security is sufficient, and slacking
>off otherwise.
Probably because the standard PC software doesn't come with
military-quality encryption.
In large part this is because the Feds have tried to prevent civilians from
using it,
and set export policies to discourage it.
To some extent it may be because publicly available crypto algorithms
aren't NSA-approved for military use, so there's no COTS code,
though there may be NSA-built similar products.
Thanks!
Bill
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