IP: Wired News: RSA goes Down Under to bypass US Crypto Laws

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 03:31:23 -0800
From: "Robert J. Berger" <rberger () ibd com>


Down Under and Out of Reach
by James Glave 


A leading supplier of data-scrambling software opened an Australian
branch office Wednesday to bypass US export restrictions and secure
the talents of two renowned software engineers.

Brisbane-based cryptographers Eric Young and Tim Hudson now form the
core of RSA Data Security Australia. The branch plant will allow the
company to more easily sell its security-software components to
foreign companies.

"[The Australian facility] is a harbinger of the way the world is
changing," said Scott Schnell, senior vice president of marketing for
RSA Data Security, based in San Mateo, California. "What we have just
done allows us to compete on an equal technological footing with all
the other companies that have sprung up internationally."
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Full article:

http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/17185.html