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Sun vs. FUD: Elvis is waiting; Sun puts high-strength encryption software aside
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/wired/story.html?s=n/reuters/980310/wired/stories/sun_4.html
Tuesday March 10 9:58 AM EST
Sun puts high-strength encryption software aside
SAN FRANCISCO (Wired) - Sun Microsystems, which had hoped to market
high-strength encryption software developed by a Russian firm, has put the
plans on hold due to ongoing scrutiny by the US Commerce Department, the Wall
Street Journal reported Monday.
The software, partially based on a Sun security protocol, was developed
by a Moscow company called Elvis+, a firm started by former Soviet space
scientists in which Sun now owns a 10 percent stake.
The deal attracted widespread attention because it appeared to give Sun a
way around the Clinton administration's regulation of strong-crypto exports.
Sun contended the Elvis+ products fall outside the purview of US
government policy. The administration has been reviewing the deal for nine
months now.
Sun executives, who had hoped to put the encryption software on the
market last August, have shelved the plans for the moment, but they remain
hopeful, the Journal reported.
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