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The following is from Electronics, February 6, 1987 and is reproduced without
permission (I hope they don't mind).

Project Overtake - a partnership formed almost two years ago between
the National Security Agency and 11 electronics companies to develop a
series of standard embedded communications security, or Comsec, devices
- is nearly a year behind schedule.  At the programs's inception, the
NSA had estimated that upwards of 85% of all future telecommunications
security needs would be met by these devices.  However, Phase I of the
program is scheduled to end in March with few, if any, products in
sight - and spokesmen for several companies say no products will appear
before late 1987.  Windster, the project's proposed line of embeddable
modules for encryption of digitized voice and low-speed data signals,
is still in the design cycle.  Under consideration is the development
of the Mini Windster, a cut-down version of Windster.  Another product
line, called Foresee, intended to provide high-speed digital data
streams at all classification levels, has been downgraded from a
government-classified program to a commercial-version status and
renamed Brushstroke.  The main reason product development is moving so
slowly, according to several companies participating in Project
Overtake, is that the communications and computer security market
remains unclear and difficult to define.  A recent market study by
EIA's Government Division [Electronics, Jan.22 1987, p.95] indicates
there's another problem: resistance within the Defense Department to
embedded security products, primarily because of concern about how they
will fit into currently installed systems [????].  The NSA is expected
to ask the 11 companies in March for a memorandum of understanding on
yet another new peoduct - Indictor, a secure hand-held radio.
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