re screw the people crypto is for hard core hackers spooks only in article apr lehman com pmetzger snark shearson com perry e metzger writes qualcomm had spare cycles in the dsps for their new cdma digital cellular phones they wanted to put strong crypto into them since they had the capacity the government decided to discourage them you re blowing smoke qualcomm wants to sell to nice lucrative overseas markets like japan and the ec the government told them don t do encryption if you ever hope to export this technology the reason that cdma doesn t have encryption is not because the g men came a knocking at qualcomm s door it s because qualcomm doesn t think that the us market for digital cellular is big enough for them this is just the international traffic in arms regulations all over again perry has already stated on the net that qualcomm wanted to sell overseas and the government told them they wouldn t be allowed to export so he s only blowing the same smoke you are sure they probably could have made a us version and a non crypto export version and contracted with a bulgarian or japanese software house to develop an overseas crypto rom but that s getting pretty expensive no cylink sells their phones because they re willing to make different stuff for domestic use vs export qualcomm isn t so cylink makes money that s capitalism comrade well some people like capitalism and others prefer free enterprise they re different using the government to stifle your competition is capitalist someone out there will build a unit to do all this better yet prehaps someone will produce a package that turns any box with a sound card into a secure phone someone this and someone that if you think it s so easy why are you whining on the net instead of getting your butt in gear and writing it writing good crypto code is something most good programmers can do writing good new crypto algorithms is a very specialized skill developing new voice coding algorithms is also pretty specialized but finding ways to implement the more complex ones when you don t have enough horsepower is still fairly hairy stuff once the pentium becomes widespread or the next generation of sound boards has dsps on it i suspect we ll see it happen maybe the vanilla soundblaster is enough pray for peace bill bill stewart wcs anchor att com at t bell labs m holmdel nj no i m from new jersey i only work in cyberspace white house commect line fax
