Originally From: Dan Todd <dantodd@dnai.com>
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
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Received on Thu Mar 11 17:00:41 1999