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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:38
Sameer Parekh (sameer@bpm.ai)
Thu, 24 Dec 1998 00:27:49 -0800 (PST)
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> Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de> writes:
>
> > Ge' Weijers wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 06:24:43PM +0100, Mok-Kong Shen wrote:
> > > > In order to cope with the 56-bit key length restriction,
> > >
> > > I don't know the legal situation is Germany, but it is not true in
> > > general that 56-bit encryption products are freely exportable. In the US
> >
> > If I don't err, the Wassenaar agreement, if it goes through in
> > all the 33 countries, sets the upper bound of exportable cryptos
> > at 56 bits for these countries. So the current state of affairs in
> > US will change in due course of time.
>
> in and working within the bounds of the Wassenaar agreement is the essence
> of giving up liberty to gain security. As Ben Franklin about his views on
You'd be giving up security too.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:38