[14031] in Cypherpunks
Secure mosaic crippled
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rishab@dxm.ernet.in)
Mon May 23 05:37:10 1994
From: rishab@dxm.ernet.in
Date: Sat, 21 May 94 19:56:28 +0530
To: hughes@ah.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes):
> The transaction model has a crippled mode for people
> outside the US and Canada
>
> Crippled?
[from the press release]:
non-U.S. residents may have to use weaker 40-bit keys in
conjunction with RSA's RC2 and RC4 variable keysize
ciphers. EIT intends to publish Secure-HTTP as an Internet
_40_ bit keys!!!??? And that's _not_ crippled? That's decapitated!
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