Originally From: Dan Todd <dantoddat_private> India Warns Against U.S. Security Software (01/14/99, 8:31 p.m. ET) By Malcolm Maclachlan, TechWeb Internet privacy advocates have said for years that limits on encryption exports could cripple the U.S. software industry, and now the Indian government has agreed with them. In a statement that has gone mostly unnoticed in the United States, the Indian Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) on Monday issued a "red alert" warning against all U.S.-made network-security software. In a letter to the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC), an Indian intelligence agency, the DRDO cited the limits the U.S. government places on encryption exports as the reason for the alert. The U.S. National Security Agency limits most exported products to relatively weak 64-bit encryption. "To put it bluntly, only insecure software can be exported," the DRDO letter states. "When various multinational companies go around peddling 'secure communication software' products to gullible Indian customers, they conveniently neglect to mention this aspect of U.S. export law." More at: http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990114S0018 -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Internet Security Institute [www.isi-sec.com]
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