UOP has developed advanced encoding system for use in NATO e-mails

"The Polish State Security Office (UOP) has developed an encoding system for use in the e-mails of NATO' s security systems," prime minister Jerzy Buzek has announced. And UOP head, Zbigniew Nowek, added that the Polish system was more advanced than those developed by the US and Germany, and explained that the system was based on enciphering keys. According to a NATO officer, the organization is very serious about information security issues, but it does not comment on systems developed by specific countries. It also usually applies simultaneously several electronic data security systems and, in addition, each country uses its own. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 6) M. S.-C.