To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (2346 ) 4/11/2000 11:51:00 AM From: Bob Trocchi Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Darn it, another speed bump or maybe a pot hole.bolster both its growing support for the free Linux operating system and its ambitions to supply crucial "building blocks" for Internet-based e-commerce. CDSA encompasses features such as high-level encryption, used to encode e-mail messages and other data in order to ensure privacy, and ways of assigning and managing digital certificates, which guarantee the identity of users and corporations across the Internet and corporate networks.Intel, however, hopes to make CDSA features far more accessible to software developers world-wide in the most direct way possible -- by giving away its software over the Internet. For the past several years, Intel engineers have worked on a "reference implementation" of CDSA functions, an effort to build working CDSA software that Intel estimates cost more than $20 million. Monday, Intel plans to announce that it will begin offering that software -- and its underlying program code -- for download by May 15.In addition, many security experts argue that open-source security programs tend to offer better protection than programs developed by a single company, since their inner workings are open to scrutiny, criticism and improvement. U.S. export controls, which for years have hampered the international sale of many security programs, now exempt open-source programs as well.
