Trustworthy contacts

[Brian Gladman]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Langley" <agl@linuxpower.org>
To: <ukcrypto@maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: Trustworthy contacts

On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 04:45:03PM +0100, Brian Gladman wrote:
> There has been a suggestion that citizen owned information in the UK might
> be protected with homegrown, unpublished algorithms such as Red Pike. I am
> not sure where this is at the moment (e.g. in the NHS)

Organisations like the NHS use off a combination of custom software and off
the shelf products. Any encryption would be commerical, maybe homegrown
ciphers
but company, not govt, ones.

AGL


<BRG>

Thanks Adam.

If you are right then the same issues apply - any algorithm used to protect
data owned by UK citizens should have been subject to the same scrutiny
process.

    Brian