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Re:Huh?
Starium which has Whitfield Diffie as a director, worked on a phone to phone public key system for mobile phones, embedded in a chip, which, if the world worked right, would habve been installed by default in all cellular phones.
They now have a new product, the "The Starium 100" which looks like the land line solution we have all been waiting for. -
Re:FYI - Starium 100 TripleDES bump in the line
Do you work for them or something? I went to their home page and I can't bring up anything on their products, just fluff about management and jobs. Not even an old Wired article from 1999 gets me to a "products" page.
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FYI - Starium 100 TripleDES bump in the line
Here it is.
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Whither Starium?Quite some time ago I was excited to hear about Starium, a company founded by some folks with much crypto-cred (cypherpunk Eric Blossom, father of public-key crypto Whitfield Diffie) to provide voice encryption products. They claim to be working on an add-on unit (pdf flyer) for regular analog phones as well as licensing their encryption for inclusion in digital phones.
This almost two-year-old Wired article says they were planning to release "sub-US$100 telephone scrambling devices" by "early-2000."
Anyone know what's taking so long?
-Jeff, www.scrollbar.com
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Whither Starium?Quite some time ago I was excited to hear about Starium, a company founded by some folks with much crypto-cred (cypherpunk Eric Blossom, father of public-key crypto Whitfield Diffie) to provide voice encryption products. They claim to be working on an add-on unit (pdf flyer) for regular analog phones as well as licensing their encryption for inclusion in digital phones.
This almost two-year-old Wired article says they were planning to release "sub-US$100 telephone scrambling devices" by "early-2000."
Anyone know what's taking so long?
-Jeff, www.scrollbar.com
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Whither Starium?Quite some time ago I was excited to hear about Starium, a company founded by some folks with much crypto-cred (cypherpunk Eric Blossom, father of public-key crypto Whitfield Diffie) to provide voice encryption products. They claim to be working on an add-on unit (pdf flyer) for regular analog phones as well as licensing their encryption for inclusion in digital phones.
This almost two-year-old Wired article says they were planning to release "sub-US$100 telephone scrambling devices" by "early-2000."
Anyone know what's taking so long?
-Jeff, www.scrollbar.com
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This was predicted some time ago
Cypherpunks and others predicted many years ago
that the government would slowly relinquish
control over crypto as more and more of a commercial market developed.
PGP was never much more than a curiosity -- no
one used it for large-scale commerce systems,
and most of the users could be pointed to by
the government as privacy nuts or criminals.
SSL, despite inherent weaknesses, has made
crypto essential in e-commerce. The e-commerce
lobby (sites, vendors, end-users) exposed the
masses to crypto, and now depends upon crypto.
When users started demanding 40 or 128bit crypto
to keep their credit card numbers secure, that's
when crypto became widely deployed.
The next step is building crypto into the very
fabric of the Internet, in IPsec, and then making
that a "checklist item" for purchasing decisions.
Once people are only willing to buy products with
security designed in, the government will have
little choice but to allow its widespread use and
export.
(I'm waiting for encrypted cellphones, like
those being designed by Starium, to
be available...)
