from a UK contributor " hardware crypto is a dog as far as markets are concerned"

[David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

> > Given that GCHQ's main mission these days is sigint support for the
> > FBI, it's hard to see how they could avoid involvement [on clipper]
> >
> > Nonetheless, hardware crypto is a dog as far as markets are
> > concerned. The future is with software, and we held a workshop last
> > December of fast software encryption which elicited a dozen new
> > algorithms (including from the likes of Don Coppersmith, Jim
> > Massey and David WHeeler).
>
> (The proceedings of this workshop are to be published by Springer Verlag I
> gather.)
> >