[104315] in Cypherpunks
Re: Commerce Undersecretary William Reinsch defends the government's encryption policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (HyperReal-Anon)
Thu Oct 15 14:10:33 1998
Date: 15 Oct 1998 17:50:05 -0000
From: HyperReal-Anon <nobody@sind.hyperreal.art.pl>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: HyperReal-Anon <nobody@sind.hyperreal.art.pl>
nospam@freedom.net wrote:
>
> http://www.infosecuritymag.com/sept/q%26a.htm
> Q & A WITH WILLIAM REINSCH
>
> Reinsch: What the government has also said is that if it's a
> key-recovery product, it can be exported with any bit length
> without constraint. And that's what we would prefer to focus
> on -- to tell people, if you're product has recovery features,
> bit length doesn't matter.
Ah, something we can finally agree upon:
"if your product has recovery features, bit length doesn't matter"
(it's insecure).
