[sci.crypt] The Colored Switch

ks@a.cs.okstate.edu (Kurt F. Sauer) (11/08/87)

While talking with a potential supplier of some hardware, the supplier's
sales representative mentioned using some particular pieces of equipment
as a "red switch, ... or orange switch or purple switch, depending on
[our particular] needs."

I think I understand the notion of a red switch, but being that the true
foundations of communications security are outside my realm of expertise,
might anyone here speculate on what an orange or purple switch is?

Kurt F. Sauer
Tulsa, OK