To: Enam Luf who wrote (601 ) 8/17/1998 12:31:00 PM From: justaninvestor Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Hi Enam, here is the Jaws website, you can also phone them at 1-888-301-5297 - see if you can speak to Mitch Tarr, VP of Sales & Marketing.jawstech.com 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."
