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Re: [Cryptography] FIPS, NIST and ITAR questions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Salz)
Tue Sep 3 17:13:49 2013
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 16:04:21 -0400
From: Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com>
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I still think you are reading it too conservatively. The NSA page
defers the actual rules to somewhere else: "Certain commercial IA and
IA-enabled IT products that contain cryptography and the technical
data regarding them are subject to Federal Government export controls"
Suite B includes algorithms (encryption) that are definitely
export-controlled. Most think it also contains algorithms that are
NOT export-controlled (digest). A Suite B implementation, which would
include encryption, is controlled. A partial implementation, such as
only the digests.. not proven.
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