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Changes in Russian licensing of cryptraghical tools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gleb Paharenko)
Thu Jan 17 13:08:11 2008
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:42:18 +0200
From: "Gleb Paharenko" <gpaharenko@gmail.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Hello.
Russian government accepted a changes in laws about licensing
cryptographic algorithms and devices. The statement in Russian
language:
http://www.garant.ru/hotlaw/doc/109485.htm
Essential in English:
You do not need to license staff which uses:
* symmetric ciphers with key length less 56 bits;
* assymetric ciphers with key length less 128 bits based on
factoring or discrete logarithms;
The origin news from:
http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=13683
(in russian as well)
--
Best regards.
Gleb Pakharenko.
http://gpaharenko.livejournal.com
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