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Re: IP: Admin Plans to Loosen Encryption Restrictions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Wed Sep 15 07:32:29 1999
In-Reply-To: <v042101b6b4042e98e43e@[204.167.108.57]>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:30:16 -0700
To: cryptography@c2.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 9:56 AM -0700 9/14/99, Robert Hettinga forwarded:
>Source: New York Times
>http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/cyber/capital/14capital.html
>
>September 14, 1999
>
>By JERI CLAUSING
>
>Administration Plans to Loosen Encryption Restrictions
>
>In June, the President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption sent
>the White House a report recommending the Administration loosen its
>restrictions on encryption technology to allow for the export of consumer
>products based on a 128-bit key. That is significantly stronger than the
>current limit on encryption products exempt from control.
My reading said that while you could export 128 bit encryption, you were
still limited to 512 bit discrete log/RSA for key agreement. With that
restriction, only spies, drug dealers, and others who can exchange keys via
physical means can have strong encryption.
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