Secure-HTTP will eliminate possible violation problems, we must ask how happy our potential foreign trading partners will be with it. We’re essentially saying that we will communicate over the infohighway with them using crypotography that is deliberately weakened.
Predictor: Schiffman, Allan
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for Infosecurity News written by Dave Powell, Allan Schiffman responds to the question, “Would Secure-HTTP’s protocol-negotiation features help tomorrow’s superhighway users avoid problems with crypto export control?” Schiffman replies: ”Secure-HTTP can negotiate downward to standards that have received Commodity Jurisdiction from the Department of Commerce. However, these are algorithms with very short key lengths. So while Secure-HTTP will eliminate possible violation problems, we must ask how happy our potential foreign trading partners will be with it. We’re essentially saying that we will communicate over the infohighway with them using crypotography that is deliberately weakened.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Communication
Subtopic: Security/Encryption
Name of publication: Infosecurity News
Title, headline, chapter name: Pit Stop on the Infobahn
Quote Type: Direct quote
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