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Re: 3DEs export?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pat Farrell)
Thu Sep 2 10:04:07 1999
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 00:37:29 -0400
To: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>,
cryptography@c2.net
From: Pat Farrell <pfarrell@netcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909011033540.16563-100000@spitfire.law.miam
i.edu>
At 10:36 AM 9/1/99 -0400, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
>http://www.zixmail.com/ZixFAQ/index.html#4
>claims that a 3DES email security procuct has been approved for export.
>Is there something about the security of this system that is compromised?
>(I don't see anything abut open source....)
Dunno about this product/company, but non-open source 3DES have been
approved for export for other companies/products,
as have 1024 bit RSA. Both are real crypto,
not compromised. But, they are not general purpose, and come with
non-trivial restrictions.
Pat
Pat Farrell CyberCash, Inc. (703) 715-7834
pfarrell@cybercash.com
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