The arrangement provides government officials with a key to the first 24 bits of security code, meaning that they only have to crack the remaining 40 bits to decrypt a message. U.S. Notes customers already use a 64-bit system. Our customers have been telling us that, unless we did something about the security, we could no longer call it a secure system. The best things were done by very small engineering teams, because a small engineering team is forced to make tradeoffs to do only one thing. But small teams go against human nature.
Human nature is to build bigger and bigger enterprises.
Java was done by a team of less than five, Mosaic was done by two to four people and the Mac system was done by about 12 people. Even DOS was actually developed by only two people. FOR WIN 95 Wang Laboratories has developed software that allows PCs to file, forward or annotate faxed and scanned images in a standardized way. The image-handling capability will be incorporated into future versions of Windows 95. U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor has warned Canadian Trade Minister Roy MacLaren that the U.S. government, while supporting the development of a V-chip to allow parental control, will react negatively if Ottawa takes wholesale action to block American programming from distribution through Canadian cable systems.