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To: justaninvestor who wrote (598)	8/17/1998 11:50:00 AM
From: Enam Luf	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 690

BBruin, Can you direct me to a site where I can find out more on JAWZ technology. The reasons I don't believe they will have a large impact on commercial industry are: Based on my understanding of the industry and my limited knowledge of JAWZ technology..... 1) Most large key encryption schemes are extremely inefficient are all but useless in high speed data transfers, electronic commerce, or VPNs. This means that JAWZ would likely be relegated to file encryption, which is not that big of a market. 2) The advantages of going to this level of security are minimal for most companies. 56 and 128 bit DES do an adequate job for most applications. 3) As their solution is a software-based approach, the weak link is key storage. Stealing the encrytion key off a hard drive is not that difficult for the experienced hacker. A company running contest can take measures to secure the key... (ie taking it off the drive and keeping on a disk)... But in the real world, software is never as safe as hardware security. 4) The US gov't will not allow export of something they can't crack using known cryptoanalytic techniques. we'll start with these.... let me know if you disagree on any of the points above.... or if I have been misinformed as to the nature of JAWZ technology. Also, if you could send me a site where I can read up about the company, it would be appreciated. Thanx, Enam