From: Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 02:05:25 +0800
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: Web Hosting Providers in Many Countries?  For crypto archives.
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Bill Stewart wrote:
> 

> And, of course, shipping or even selling source for 40-bit RC4
> and 512-bit RSA is pretty simple, even if you don't include the note
> "WARNING: DO NOT CHANGE THE #define KEYLENGTH TO 128 OR THE
> #define MODULUSLENGTH TO 2048 AND RECOMPILE"

Software that are parametrizable would thus all be able to escape 
the export regulations that way, I believe. But they would pose 
strict laws on the use, i.e. actual key size employed by the user,
as is the case in France, if I don't err. That will be the real 
problem, I am afraid.

M. K. Shen