No matter how much things change, they stay the same. As I have pointed out, there have been massive changes in security drivers over the past 12 months. The changes have generated a new set of challenges, but, even though our encryption innovator has done a first-rate job of addressing them over the past year, the new issues are generating a sort of déjà vu picture of the encryption market. Key management still is a challenge, for example, not because PGP has not addressed it, but because the ballgame is changing rapidly. Now there is a strong movement toward universality in encryption. Clearly not everyone uses the same encryption product, but everyone now seems to have learned that encryption is a critical component of security. That means some sort of universal key management system that supports third-party keys is needed. This is not a new problem, but certainly one that has moved up in the stack.
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