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From: peb@Autodesk.COM (Paul Baclaski)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.groupware
Subject: NYT article on NSA versus free trade
Keywords: NSA IBM encryption export Lotus Notes
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Date: 19 Nov 90 23:40:21 GMT
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The November 19, 1990 New York Times has a front page article
by John Markow (NYT science editor) about the NSA and its 
efforts to continually deny export licenses of encryption
equipment.  IBM was involved with some heavy negotiations
(pleading?) and ended up having a U.S. version and an export
version of some type of mainframe.  He repeatedly made the
point that the U.S. computer companies are not competitive
with foreign companies in the international market place
because of this.  He also mentioned that Lotus Notes has a
weakened encryption feature when it is exported.

It is nice to see this get front page attention.


Paul E. Baclaski
peb@autodesk.com