Internet: Landreville-B(_at_)Immedia(_dot_)ca
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Subject: exploring the technology
Author: uunet!immedia.ca!LANDREVILLE-B at Internet
Date: 2/25/94 5:21 PM
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Dear Sir,
I am working for MPACT Immedia a compagnie providing an electronic commerce
products and services. I am exploring the technology presently available to
offer a secure e-mail service to our customers who are located in many
countries around the world.
My first question would be about the law that restricts the exportation
of encryption technology. Has it changed in the past few years or is DES
still barred from export?
The law has not changed greatly although the folks in congress are arguing
to get it changed. DES can not be exported except to banking and financial
institutions and then only to co-com (friendly) countries.
There are alternative and accepted encryption algorithms that can be
exported but only if the proper licenses are obtained from the US Commerce
department or US Defenese department.
Also, I would like some information on how to get RSAREF. I would also like to
know what will be the cost of a license for TIPEM or BSAFE assuming
we have thousands of customers. I thank you in advance for any information
you will provide.
Contact Kurt Stammburger at RSA (KURT(_at_)RSA(_dot_)COM or phone:
415-595-8782). He
can provide you with information that you need about BSAFE and TIPEM.
For your information, the company that I work for builds a product based on
RSA technology called SECURExchange. This products works under DOS and
Windows with any E-mail client that can support the attachment of messages.
From your description of your needs, I think that I could save you a lot of
work (and time and money) in setting up a secured e-mail systems that uses
X.509 certificates, provides protection against disclosure, message
authentication and digital signatures. Our product can be exported and used
in most countries around the world.
Please let me know if you would like additonal information on SECURExchange
or would like a working model of SECURExchange for testing.
Happy exploring!!
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Sincerly,
Brigitte Landreville
MPACT Immedia
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