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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: NEED GENERAL INFORMATION ON WIRELESS LANS
- In-Reply-To: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (Bill Stewart +1-908-949-0705)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.085140.18307@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <jenn_b.5@aci_1.aci.ns.ca> <WCS.92Nov5231548@rainier.ATT.COM>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 08:51:40 GMT
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- In article <WCS.92Nov5231548@rainier.ATT.COM>, wcs@anchor (Bill Stewart +1-908-949-0705) writes:
- >If you want a product plug, AT&T / NCR's WaveLAN product uses
- >spread-spectrum radio, which is hard to intercept and relatively
- >tolerant of noise and other LANs in the same area,
- >and offers an optional DES encryption chip (US only, I assume)
-
- Just a comment about semantics .. it hardly makes sense to talk about
- "US only" encryption devices, since it is the USA who has the export
- and use restrictions (via export laws, software patents and apparently
- by control of law in the future), not the rest of the world. You
- probably mean "not to be exported from USA", assuming you are talking
- about U.S. companies.
-
- There are several DES chip and device manufacturers in Europe who are
- glad to sell and glad about increased sales due to the export
- restrictions.
-
- //Jyrki
-