Rich Salz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Anyone know anything about these guys? > >[I may be having a knee jerk reaction, but this smells snake oily. --pm] >The technology we are talking about is a new cryptographic key distribution >system <97>The Constructive Key Management System<AE> (CKM<AE>) created by >TECSEC<AE> Incorporated. CKM provides a quantum leap in the ability to >securely access information of all kinds discretely over any network. CKM is >extremely scaleable and satisfies the requirements of the new X9.69 ANSI >standard. CrypTEC Systems is supplying the CKM-enabled<99> smart cards and >supporting software and systems to TECSEC for use by the various government >agencies. I looked at the TECSEC stuff a while back, it combines smart cards and RBAC (which the USG seems keen for) with full key recovery (which, I guess, parts of the USG are keen for) and proprietary algorithms (they're rather vague on this, hinting at DES and 3DES without ever really committing to it and at one point claiming they'd exported something with some odd key size which corresponds to no known cipher). It didn't strike me as the usual snake oil, but it's not something I'd rush out and get either. Peter.
