From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 08:59:21 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Lotus Notes
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At 20:25 1/29/96, Charlie_Kaufman/Iris.IRIS@iris.com wrote:

>The Notes R4 approach gives the best of two fairly unpleasant worlds. You can
>export crypto if you either limit yourself to 40 bits
[...]
>
>Notes R4 didn't give up anything to get this.

Of course Lotus gave something up for it. The voluntarily made sure that
even the supposedly non-GAK domestic version provides relatively easy
access for the authorities. Sixty-four bits are an inconvenience, but
nothing more. If Lotus had wanted to make the domestic version GAK free,
they would have used 128 bit. In the end Lotus caved in twice: they
released a 'super easy' GAK international version and a not 'quite so easy'
GAK domestic version. Sixty-four bits is GAK. Period.


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