“IBM on Wednesday will announce it will offer for export PCs
capable of handling 256-bit digital key encryption.”
“The machines will be available on March 10, making Armonk,
N.Y.-based IBM among the first to make this technology widely
available, an IBM executive said.”
“IBM received permission from the Department of Commerce last
week to build and offer the computers — part of the U.S.
government’s move to ease restrictions on the export of encryption
technology that at one time was considered the digital equivalent
of a munition.”