[14842] in Cypherpunks
Re: The Crypto Home Shopping Network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eli Brandt)
Tue Jun 7 00:40:36 1994
To: cypherpunks list <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 94 21:38:48 PDT
From: Eli Brandt <ebrandt@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199406070257.WAA00381@orchard.medford.ma.us>; from "Bill Sommerfeld" at Jun 6, 94 10:57 pm
> A year or so ago, my employer's export control expert said that
> decrypt-only strong crypto for intellectual property protection was
> exportable (in object code form only).
Seems to me it's pretty hard to make a stream cipher decrypt-only.
A little hacking around and you can do what you want with the stream.
Eli ebrandt@hmc.edu
(or you could snarf PGP from Finland, but Commerce hasn't clued in on that)
