From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 15:12:57 +0800
To: jimbell@pacifier.com
Subject: Re: So, what crypto legislation (if any) is necessary?
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From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>

>Far more acceptable (and useful to us)  would be a rule which would mandate 
>the government's allowing the export of any program that had, say, the key 
>security provided by IDEA or less, regardless of what it did with that 
>encryption.  (Not that I want _any_ restrictions; it's just that such a 
>limit would make it impractically large to attempt to crack.)

	As I pointed out earlier, one way (that would cause the NSA types
problems trying to stop) would be to make legal for export anything which was
no harder for the NSA to break than what's already out of the country.
	-Allen