From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 95 14:21:05 PDT
To: bdavis@thepoint.net (Brian Davis)
Subject: Re: Another SSL breakage...
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| So ... has this proven that the banning of strong crypto is the correct 
| way to go, and that, at least to some, credit card transactions using 
| weak crypto will be acceptable to most (given the ease of getting CC#s 
| other ways)?

	No.  Banning strong crypto will not help; those darn furriners
are using it anyway.  What it will mean is that the Information
Infrastructure of the future will bypass the United States, as without
strong cryptography, it is impossible to build a secure architechture.

	Should the United States wish to relagate itself to the status
of a third world nation becuase of terrorists, druge dealers, child
pornorgaphers and money launderers, that is indeed unfortunate.

Adam


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