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Re: Digest Authentication

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Lunde)
Sat Dec 30 13:51:19 1995

To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 10:25:10 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.951230174606.149A-100000@andy.alt.za> from "Andrew Cameron" at Dec 30, 95 05:47:07 pm
Reply-To: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
From: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

> > This document provides specification for such a scheme, referred to as 
> > "Digest Access Authentication".  The encryption method used is the RSA Data
> > Security, Inc. MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm [3].                           
> Will this be available to people outside the US, or will the ITAR 
> regulations mean that only those in the US can legally use it.

ITAR does not limit authentication as much as encryption, (and MD5
code seems to be widely available), so I think this should not be a problem.

-- 
    Albert Lunde                      Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu

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