Re: AS/400 LAUDED FOR SECURITY.... :)

Well,  I take it that the NSA hasn't been reading the M-L discourse this
summer on how easy it is to find passwords...  

Also, I take it they're NOT going to be installing Pentasafe's Password
Manager/400 product any time soon....:)   ....which, btw, is a product I
REALLY found to be interesting...:)

Don in DC

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On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, oludare wrote:

> Article from News400:
> 
> 
> AS/400 LAUDED FOR SECURITY
> http://www.news400.com/nwn/StoryBuild.cfm?ID=986
> For the fifth year in a row, the National Security Agency recognized 
> OS/400 with its C2 security evaluation award. The box was also 
> recognized for its cryptography implementation of Data Encryption 
> Standard (DES) as conforming to the Federal Information Processing 
> Standard (FIPS) 46-2 and for its AS/400 Secure Hashing Algorithm 
> (SHA-1) implementation as conforming to the standard specified in 
> FIPS 180-1.
> 
> "Our customers have come to expect nothing less than the highest 
> security standards," says Tom Jarosh, IBM AS/400 general manager, 
> "and we continue to deliver year after year." Meeting these 
> government-approved standards is imperative to many businesses, such 
> as banks and financial institutions.
> 
> 
> 
> _______
> Oludare
> 

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