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Article: Hewlett-Packard encryption system to allow governments to set limits Company to produce chips with most powerful software, but `token' to control use depending on a nation's laws
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 19, 1996
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Hewlett-Packard Co. has unveiled a new plan that could put
top-quality encryption software into millions of computers worldwide.
But the system could make it easier for governments around the world
to limit their citizens' use of encryption.
Globally, governments are seeking ways to control encryption
technology, which can make it impossible to read an intercepted
computer message.
Encryption -- which scrambles messages so they can't be read --
can be used to protect legitimate business transactions, or can be
used by domestic criminals and foreign terrorists to conceal their
activities.
To prevent this, the US government sets strict limits on the
export of encryption hardware and software ...