From: futplex@pseudonym.com (Futplex)
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 1996 16:11:59 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Subject: Intl. Keysize Limit vs. U.S. Keysize Limit (Was: Re: Hack Lotus?)
In-Reply-To: <3106df37.flight@flight.hrnowl.lonestar.org>
Message-ID: <199601260550.AAA03377@thor.cs.umass.edu>
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Paul Elliott writes:
> The real problem is the 64 bit key in the domestic version. This
> conforms to the NIST "standard" for an exportable system. In other
> words to allow the international people to have almost non-existant
> 40 bit security, they have limited domestic users to 64 bit secuity.

The 64-bit domestic limit really has no connection to the 40-bit intl. limit.
It would be just as easy to build the intl. version of Notes with 128-bit+spy
keys, with 40 bits of truly protected key and 88 bits of espionage-enabled 
key, and then use straight 128 bits in the domestic version. They simply 
appear not to want people in the U.S. to have >64 bits of security, 
regardless of export issues.

Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>		Still drowning in mail....

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