Gary McGraw says that his company, Reliable Software Technologies (RST; , VA) has won a $2.4M NIST ATP award to develop Java security certification components for electronic commerce. Gary is co-author of the book "Java Security: Hostile Applets, Holes, and Antidotes." . [, 22Oct97.]

In TCC 7.72, I mentioned Project RC5 to win the RSA Secret-Key Challenge. Brad Miller tells me that the encryption has been broken. You can look up the story on news.com, or on the previously mentioned websites. [, 23Oct97.]

-- Ken